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Settled land

event of land being limited in trust contingently on a future event, or (b) in case of a discretionary trust, or … Wolstenholme & Cherry, Conveyancing, etc., Acts. Prior to 1856 settled estates could not be sold or leased except under the authority

Coparceners or parceners

the 1st Sched. Part I. of the Act. Further the future creation of equitable interests in coparcenary has been prevented by … heir might be a male and a collateral. Indeed, their estates are held in coparcenary so long as they claimed by

Release

not impliedly release from past breaches of covenant, only the future, Richmond v. Savill, (1926) 2 KB 530. Consult Dav. Prec. … SURETY CON-SIDERATION); also a Common Law conveyance of a larger estate, or a remainder, or reversion to one already in possession,

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contract

security, or currency) at a predetermined price on a set future date called also forward futures contract : a contract purchased … two contracts made with regard to the sale of real estate of which one states an inaccurately high price for the

Infant

contract into which an infant may by any existing or future statute, or by the rules of Common Law or Equity, … granted to him under s. 47 of the Administra-tion of Estates Act, 1925; infants who do not attain a vested interest,

Married women's property

ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay … a married woman could without her husband dispose of trust estates, and (s. 3) could alone be protector of a settlement.

Rent

(2) Rent-charge, where the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion in the land. It is usually created … a term of years absolute (see LEASE) they are legal estates. All other rent-charges and rents, such as for life or

Fixtures

part of the freehold, is considered to have abandoned all future right to it, so that it would be waste in … the enjoyment of the inheritance. See Re Lord Chesterfield's Settled Estates, (1911) 1 Ch 237. (3) Between the tenant of a

Discontinuance

discontinuances has now become of no account, as far as future transactions are concerned, not merely inconsequence of the abolition of … or breaking off. This happened when he who had an estate-tail made a larger estate of the land than by law

fee

then alienate (as by selling), the fee tail creates a future interest in the descendants which prevents the grantee and the … Old High German fehu cattle] 1 : an inheritable freehold estate in real property ;esp : fee simple compare leasehold life

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