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Real representative
persons entitled.' Real estate over which a person exercises a general power of appointment by his will and an entailed interest … of a deceased person vested in his heir, heiresses, or devisees, and his personal estate in his executors or administrators. The
principal
act for him or her subject to his or her general control or instruction : one from whom an agent derives … to ] ;also : the main body of an estate, devise, or bequest
Apportionment
in case of leases made after that Act to conditions generally in leases executed after 1881; and as to conditions already … by act of parties, e.g., upon surrender, release, grant or devise of part of demised land. The right to apportionment is
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Frauds, Statute of
the Irish Parliament in 7 Wm. 3, c. 12, applies generally to the British colonies, and, remarks Mr. Chancellor Kent (2 … important provisions as to the making, revocation, etc., of wills devising land, and as to nuncupative wills, etc., which have been
Passive trust
requisite to satisfy the trust in every event, although the general rule is that the same words of limitation are (or … by the trustee, the courts endeavoured in the case of devises by will land executory contracts to give by construction the
Terms for years
(the lessee) come into it for a determinate time, are generally sufficient for the purpose. Terms could not be limited in … except by way of trust or by will as executory devises and an estate tail could not be limited in a
Trust for sale
power at discretion to postpone the sale, but in its general legal sense the term is not restricted to that meaning. … realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to
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