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Trust
the (English) Trustee Act, 1888, by which trustees, as a general rule, are allowed [see Re Somerset, (1894) 1 Ch 231; … codicillary paper executed with the statutory formalities, but if a devise or bequest of the legal estate be accompanied with any
Lapse
of Estates Act, 1925, s. 51(3). It is also a general rule that a trust legacy does not lapse by the … A device or legacy is said to lapse when the devisee or legatee dies before the testator. In such case the
Election
and Regulation of Associations) Act, 2005, s. 2(h). In U.K., general elections to Parliament are held on completion of a term … effect to every part of it. Thus, if a testator devises his own estate to A and A's estate to B,
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Power
v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157. Power, may be general or implied. The general powers are such as the donee … executor, to sell an estate, to whom no estate was devised, and a statutory power to sell estates, as in the
Marriage
lived together until the passing of the Act. Present Law.--The general purport of the existing law is to require a public … Ch D 266], and they could take under a specific devise or real estate to 'children', Gray v. Stamford, (1892) 3
Money land
was made; 4thly, not to pass as money by a general bequest to a legatee, but it would by a particular … Money land. In equity, land articled or devised to be sold, and turned into money, is considered as
legacy
payable from a designated fund or asset or from the general assets of the estate to the extent the specified fund … personal property by will : bequest see also ademption compare devise conjoint legacy in the civil law of Louisiana : a
Property
Ambu Singh, AIR 1957 Manipur 1. Property, in its most general usage, it denotes ownership of the things owned, UNESCO Report, … Property in realty is acquired by entry, conveyance, descent, or devise; and in personalty, by many ways, but most usually by
Occupancy
persons may, on their own lands, or in the seas, generally exercise the right to pursue and take any fowl or … an incorporeal or corporeal hereditament, may in all cases be devised by will, and, by s. 6, that if no disposition
Quorum
from the 'justices of the quorum.' See JUSTICES, and the General Index to Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Quorum.' 'Quorum' denotes the minimum … to fix the quorum as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure. Quorum does not apply to bodies doing
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