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Priority
Priority, an antiquity of tenure in comparison with another less ancient; also that which is before another in order of time. As to priority among creditors, see (English) Admin-istration of Estates Act, 1869, reproduced by ss....
Procuratory of resignation
Procuratory of resignation, a proceeding in the law of Scotland, by which a vassal authorises the fee to be returned to his superior, either to remain the property of the superior, in which case it is...
Purchase, Words of
Purchase, Words of, those by which, taken abso-lutely without reference to or connection with any other words, an estate first attaches, or its considered as commencing in point of title, in the person described by them....
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Springing use
Springing use, a form of use in the nature of an executory interest directing property inland to vest at a future period which does not coincide with the termination of a legal estate at common law,...
Receipt
Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence of payment, Skaife v. Jackson, (1824) 3 B&C 421. The act of receiving something; a written...
Reversion
Reversion [fr. revertor, Lat.], that portion left of an estate after a grant of a particular portion of it, short of the whole estate, has been made by the owner to another person. it is thus...
Right close, Writ of
Right close, Writ of, a writ which is directed unto the lord of ancient demesne, which lieth for those tenants within ancient demesne who hold their lands by charter in fee-simple, or in fee tail, or...
Short-ford
Short-ford. The ancient custom of the city of Exeter is, when the lord of the fee cannot be answered rent due to him out of his tenement, and no distress can be levied for the same,...
Hotchpot
Hotchpot [fr. hache en poche, Fr., a confused mingling of diverse things], a blending or mixing of lands and chattels, answering in some respects to the collatio bonorum of the Civil Law. 'And it seemeth that...
Squatter
Squatter, a squatter is one who settles or locates on land enclosed with no bona fide claim or color of title and without the consent of the owner, AIR 1968 Punj 470 (473). (Motor Vehicles Act,...
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Fees - Law Dictionary Search Results
Priority
Priority, an antiquity of tenure in comparison with another less ancient; also that which is before another in order of time. As to priority among creditors, see (English) Admin-istration of Estates Act, 1869, reproduced by ss....
Procuratory of resignation
Procuratory of resignation, a proceeding in the law of Scotland, by which a vassal authorises the fee to be returned to his superior, either to remain the property of the superior, in which case it is...
Purchase, Words of
Purchase, Words of, those by which, taken abso-lutely without reference to or connection with any other words, an estate first attaches, or its considered as commencing in point of title, in the person described by them....
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Springing use
Springing use, a form of use in the nature of an executory interest directing property inland to vest at a future period which does not coincide with the termination of a legal estate at common law,...
Receipt
Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence of payment, Skaife v. Jackson, (1824) 3 B&C 421. The act of receiving something; a written...
Reversion
Reversion [fr. revertor, Lat.], that portion left of an estate after a grant of a particular portion of it, short of the whole estate, has been made by the owner to another person. it is thus...
Right close, Writ of
Right close, Writ of, a writ which is directed unto the lord of ancient demesne, which lieth for those tenants within ancient demesne who hold their lands by charter in fee-simple, or in fee tail, or...
Short-ford
Short-ford. The ancient custom of the city of Exeter is, when the lord of the fee cannot be answered rent due to him out of his tenement, and no distress can be levied for the same,...
Hotchpot
Hotchpot [fr. hache en poche, Fr., a confused mingling of diverse things], a blending or mixing of lands and chattels, answering in some respects to the collatio bonorum of the Civil Law. 'And it seemeth that...
Squatter
Squatter, a squatter is one who settles or locates on land enclosed with no bona fide claim or color of title and without the consent of the owner, AIR 1968 Punj 470 (473). (Motor Vehicles Act,...
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