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Feoffment to uses
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Uses
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Lease and release
whom a consideration moved. It was also preferable to a bargain and sale, and still more to a feoffment, because no additional ceremony was necessary to its operation; but the transfer of property in land might have … common assurance. For it was preferable to a bargain and sale, and to a covenant to stand seised to uses because it effected a transfer of the legal estate under the rules of the Common Law, and therefore
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Tail
if executed before 1926. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 167] These modes of assurance of a fee-simple were feoffment (at the Common Law), bargain and sale, covenant to stand seised, a release (under the Statute of Uses),
Consideration
In the absence of consideration or an express or implied trust, the solemnity of the transfer, whether by feoffment in former days, or by deed or registration now, the legal completion of the transaction did and does
Fee-simple
for that there lack these words (his heirs), which words only make an estate of inheritance in all feoffments and grants.' Prior to the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, the phrase universally adopted in deeds, in order to
Transfer
an amended form by s. 52, Law of Property Act, 1925) provided that a transfer (therein called a feoffment) (see that title) of land, and an assignment of a lease (therein called a 'chattel interest') of land
Power
in possession only, and not in reversion. Powers appendant may be destroyed by release, bargain and sale, or feoffment; powers in gross, by feoffment or release; but powers simply collateral could not formerly be destroyed by the … ibid.). This Act, having abolished the Statute of Uses powers deriving their effect by way of a declaration to uses will, after 1925, only take effect as either legal or equitable powers. By the same Act (s. 205,
Gift
species of deed, and describe it as a conveyance applicable to the creation of an estate-tail; while a feoffment they strictly confine to the creation of a fee simple estate. The operative verb was 'give,' which no
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