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Copyhold

No copyhold estate can, therefore, be created at the present day. Copyhold customs are divided into two species:'(1) General, which extend to all manors in which there are copyholders, and are warranted by the common law, and … to every tenant admitted in or after 1888, rent-charges were made redeemable, limited owners of enfranchised land might charge the land with the money paid for the enfranchisement, and the 'Land Commissioners' were directed (see s. 30)

Dower

in the third part of the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty by metes … on or before the 1st January, 1834, and does not give to any will, deed, contract, engagement, or charge executed, entered into, or created before that day, the effect of defeating any right to dower. No arrears

Costs

see Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944. In proceedings between the Crown and a subject the general rule is that the Crown neither receives nor pays costs, but thee are many statutory exceptions, as, for … is dealt with summarily under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and (c) any justice or justices before whom a charge not dealt with summarily is made against any person for an indictable offence (in this Act referred to

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Executor

After an order for administration has been made, however, the power to prefer no longer exists. (8) In general, legacies ought not to be paid within a year after the death of the testator, and not even

trust

person usually following payment of income for life to a non-skip person : a trust created by a generation-skipping transfer of property in trust grantor trust : a trust that is taxed at the settlor's tax rate … reduces competition or is thought to present a threat of reducing competition compare antitrust 3 a : a charge or duty imposed in faith or confidence or as a condition of some relationship b : something committed

Uses

19 Hen. 7, c. 15, extended, for the first time, the estate of the cestui que use. In general, however, there was but little difference in the terms 'use' and trust. See OFFICIAL USE; ACTIVE USE; PASSIVE

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