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Recovery

record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

An important change was the abolition of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed … in respect of the same piece of land or incorporeal hereditament; for instance, land may be held in fee simple, leased and mortgaged at the same time. all other estate and interests inland are reduced to equitable interests.

Fee

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Uses

for treason or felony. In fact, he was treated at Common Law as the absolute tenant of the fee. (8) A use, being but the creature of equity, could not have been taken in execution for the … performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality. It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people. Hence ingenuity was

Estate

capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each other, thus the absolute ownership or fee simple may be leased and sub-leased, mortgaged and charged, each of the holders of these estates having a good … technically, in regard to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest, e.g., estate in fee simple, for life, for years, etc., in either legal or equitable estates. In practice its most important division is

Settled land

innovations which bring it into line with the rest of the land legislation of 1925, so that a fee-simple in possession or a term of years absolute (which are the only legal estates in existence) should be

Manor

Act, 1925, s. 205 (1) (ix)] The (English) land legislation of 1925 has not disturbed the property in fee simple or many valuable rights which are or may be incident to a manor, such as mines, minerals, lime, … Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate in fee-simple in a tract of land granted by the sovereign to a subject (usually of power and consequence) in

Merger

of Property Act, 1925, a foreclosure by a mortgagee will merge the mortgage term into and vest the fee simple in the mortgagee subject to any prior mortgage term, and a similar consequence, mutatis mutandis, follows upon foreclosure

Determinable fee

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Shelley's case, Rule in

abeyance; that is to say, where the inheritance is to his heirs or right heirs he takes the fee-simple; and where it is to the heirs of his body an estate-tail general, 1 Steph. Com. In Coke's

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