Fork Tailed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fork tailedFork tailed
Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones swallow tailed said of many birds...
Carangidae
large family of narrow bodied marine food fishes allied to the mackerels with widely forked tails chiefly of warm seas it includes the caranx American bluefish and the pilot fish...
Drongo
A passerine bird of the family Dicruridaelig They are usually black with a deeply forked tail They are natives of Asia Africa and Australia called also drongo shrikes...
VerbarMaguari
A South American stork Euxenara maguari having a forked tail...
man of war bird
The frigate bird a long billed warm water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail also applied to the skua gulls and to the wandering albatross...
Muscivora forficata
A gray flycatcher of Southwestern U S and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings the scissortailed flycatcher...
Pratincole
Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola or family Glareolidaelig allied to the plovers They have long pointed wings and a forked tail...
Sappho
Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho having very bright colored and deeply forked tails called also firetail...
Scissorstail
A tyrant flycatcher Milvulus forficatus of the Southern United States and Mexico which has a deeply forked tail It is light gray above white beneath salmon on the flanks and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers...
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
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