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Executory devise

Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future...

Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the...

Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor....

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Power, in respect of court the word 'power' means an authority expressly or impliedly conferred on the court by law...

Recto, Breve de, a writ of right, which was of so high a nature that, as other writs in real...

Shall, a word of slippery semantics in a rule is not decisive and the context of the statute, the purpose...

Solicitor, an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature, who, and who only, is entitled to 'sue out any writ...

Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by...

Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable...

Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in. This estate arises out of a special entail as to the parentage...

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