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Disentailing Deed

tail by disposing of the land for an estate in fee simple or any less estate, and thus defeat the rights

Fee-expectant

Fee-expectant. If lands are given to a man and his wife … lands are given to a man and his wife in tail, habendum to them and their heirs, they had an estate

Joint-tenancy

1926 there might be a joint-tenancy for life, or in fee, or in remainder, but not in tail, unless the donees,

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Power

to him. Of necessity, therefore, where a man seised in fee settles his estate on others, reserving to himself only a … is settled to A. for life, remainder to B. in tail, remainder to A. in fee, and A. has a power

De ventre inspiciendo

of a tenant-in-tail, or h'res factus, as a devisee in fee, in tail, or for life, to guard them against supposititious

Executory limitation

is a person entitled to land for an estate in fee, or for a term of years absolute or determinable on … only applies to imitations of land in fee simple or tail or for a term of years absolute or determinable on

Purchase, Words of

is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs'

Presentation

the clergyman presented by the patron. All persons seised in fee, in tail or for life, or possessed of a term

Portion

TERM. This term preceded the settlement of the estate in fee or in tail according to the intention of the settlor.

Particular tenants, Alienation by

for the life of another or in tail or in fee, these being estate which either must or may last longer

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