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s. thirty and thirty-one deal with the estates of trustees. As to the expressions necessary to execute a general power, the twenty-seventh s. enacts that a devise or bequest in general terms of real or personal property shall … effect, and this is still the rule where the testator has only a special, as distinguished from a general, power of appointment. As to the devise of a fee, the twenty-eight s. enacts 'that where any real estate

Deed

premises will operate in preference to the habendum. There is not any habendum in an appointment under a power or (before 1926) in a covenant to stand seised, or a simple declaration of uses, because such deeds … sequence; and although it is not absolutely necessary that a deed should be drawn in accordance with the generally received formulary, provided it exhibits the intention of the parties, yet it is not advisable to deviate from

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jurisdiction

action raises an issue of federal law (as by depending on construction or application of a federal law). general jurisdiction : jurisdiction that is not limited (as to a particular class of cases) ;specif : the personal … from juris, genitive of jus law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed

Sessions of the peace

bylaw to e held at particular periods, as bys. 10 of the (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, a general annual licensing meeting within the irst fourteen days of February, for licensing alehouses and victualling-houses to sell excisable … Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of

Jurisdiction

meaning 'generally the authority of the judicial officer to act in the matters', Rachapudi Subba Rao v. Advocate General, AIR 1981 SC 755: (1981) 2 SCR 320: (1981) 2 SCC 577. Jurisdiction should not be confused with … M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697. Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally,

London

to the London County Council, the number of councillors consisting of double the number of parliamentary members. The general government of London was entrusted by the Metropolitan Management Act, 1855, to the Metropolitan Board, the members of … Board of Works, constituted by the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number of councillors consisting of double the

County Courts

of a deputy to carry out the duties of a judge unavoidably absent. Jurisdiction.--The subject matters of the general jurisdiction are all personal actions where the debt, demand or damage claimed is notmore than 100l. except libel, … thinks fit; and the s. gives an appeal from the County Court to the High Court and a power of removal to the High Court. By (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c.

Settled land

the Settled Land Act, 1925, and trustees for the purposes of the Settled Land Act, 1925, have no general power of sale against the tenant for life. On the other hand, trustees for sale under trusts for sale

Nuisance

the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the

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