Forced Portion - Law Dictionary Search Results

: the portion (as one-fourth) of a testate succession that is reserved for a forced heir called also forced portion compare disposable portion, falcidian portion, marital portion NOTE: The fraction used to calculate the legitime will vary depending

Commanding Officer

of 1950), s. 4 (xv)] when used in any provision of this Act, with reference to any separate portion of the regular army or to any department thereof, means the officer whose duty it is under the … time being in command of the unit or detachment to which such person belongs or is attached. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (xv)] when used in any provision of this Act, with reference

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disposable portion

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Manometer

exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening or in bending … An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases steam etc constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force

heir

his or her liability for the decedent's debts bod·i·ly heir : heir of the body in this entry forced heir : an heir who cannot be disinherited except for causes recognized by law ;esp in the civil … physical infirmity cannot care for himself or herself and who cannot be deprived of his or her lawful portion of the decedent's estate by disinherison without just cause see also legitime heir ab in·tes·ta·to [-ab-in-tes-tā-tō, -Ä b-in-tes-tÄ

Civil Law

this island. After the declension of the Roman empire, the Saxon, Danish, and Norman laws superseded a great portion of the Roman Law; but not very long afterwards it began again to manifest its influence, and entered … their respective numbers. They are directed either to magistrates, bishops, or citizens of Constantinople, and were of equal force and authority for those private persons to whom they were addressed, and who were enjoined to have them

Colony

to the authority of Parliament. The alterations may be general or partial, leaving the old laws still in force touching matters unprovided for. In the third case (which is strictly a plantation), the English laws, so far … by the act of the Imperial Parliament, to whose legislative authority every kind of colony is subject, as portions of the British dominions, and whose protection they have a right to demand, for the resistance of hostile

accretion

law of Louisiana : the passing to an heir or conjoint legatee of the right to accept a portion of a succession resulting from the failure of a coheir or colegatee to take his or her own … or the consequent acquisition of land accruing to the owner by the gradual or imperceptible action of natural forces (as by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea or a river or by a

Power

in the instance of the Land Tax Redemption Acts, are both Common Law authorities. The estate passed by force of the will or passes by force of the Act, and the person who executes the power merely … death, a power to raise a term of years to commence from his death for securing younger children's portions, are all powers in gross. A power may, with reference to the particular estates in the land over

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