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Under-lease

as a lease in contracts and conditions of sale is generally a misdescription [Re Beyfus and Masters' Contract, (1888) 39 Ch … lease, reserving to himself a reversion; it differs from an assignment, which conveys the lessee's whole interest, and passes to the

Poor Prisoners, Defence of

defence at the trial and to have solicitor and counsel assigned to him for that purpose, if a certificate, called the

Means and includes

of Stamps, 1899 AC 99. The word 'include' is very generally used in interpretation clauses in order to enlarge the meaning … is a hard-and-fast definition, and no other meaning can be assigned to the expression than is put down in definition'. The

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Forfeiture

rent), by s. 14, conferred on the High Court a general power to relieve against forfeiture. S. 14 was replaced and … observe that the s. is (1) except in regard to assignments in breach of covenant before 1926, retrospective, so as to

Civil list

of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state; it is the provision made for … lieu of its proper patrimony, and in consideration of the assignment of that patrimony to the public use. This arrangement has

Dower

tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from … 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 41. An action for assignment of dower is not within this Act, though the Court

Stamp duties

payable on stamping, after execution, unstamped or insufficiently stamped instruments generally. Consolidating Act of 1891.--Many alterations in the law of stamps … any right to sue for moneys assured by an unstamped assignment of a life policy, made void every condition of sale

Year to year, tenancy from

land is let from year to year, or by a general parol demise, without any deter-minate interest, but reserving the payment … of their estate by either of them; so that the assigns, or real or personal representatives, of the former, according to

Way

now for many years become ordinary highways. See TURNPIKE-ROADS. Highways generally be-come so by what is called a 'dedication' of them … grantee alone; it dies with the person; the grantee cannot assign it, or justify taking another person in his company-it is

Usual Covenants

Ch 41. A proviso for re-entry on breach of covenants generally is not 'usual,' but a proviso for re-entry on breach … others are, and in particular that the covenant not to assign or underlet without the leave of the lessor is not:

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