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Exennium, or exhenium

Exennium, or exhenium, a gift; a new year's gift.

Churchyard

BURIAL; and Whitehead's Church Law. As to consecration, see (English) Consecration of Churchyards Acts, 1867 and 1868. A gift for the maintenance of a churchyard is a valid charitable gift [Re Douglas, (1905) 1 Ch 279].

Estate duty

deemed to pass on the death of a person after 1st August, 1894. Property 'passing' on death includes gifts or dispositions by the deceased to another person within three years of death, the estate duty taking the

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Religious endowment or endowment

any service or charity connected therewith and includes the premises of maths or temple but does not include gifts of property made as personal gifts or offerings to the head of a math or to the archaka

Undue influence

be held not to have exercised his free and independent volition in regard to the act. As to gifts, see title SPIRITUALISM and Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655, and as to wills, see Parfitt

unified credit

the unified transfer tax that is a cumulative credit gradually reduced by the amount of credit allowed for gifts made in preceding calendar periods NOTE: The total unified credit allowed as of 1987 is $192,800. The amount

Inam

Inam, the urdu word 'Inam' means a gift. The Inams grants were made by the Rulers for various purposes, some of them were granted to institutions

Maritagium

1. A lord's right to arrange a married for his infant ward 2. Dower 3. Dowry; a marriage gift, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 980. Maritagium, the portion which is given with a daughter in marriage.

Loan societies

Societies. These societies are entitled to issue debentures for money deposited with them (otherwise than by way of gift), and these as well as all other notes and instruments given in pursuance of the Act are exempted

Magna Carta

and detail contain provisions which could not have originated, sua sponte, in the mind of any legislator, however gifted he may have been. The 1st chapter is a confirmation of liberties in these words:-'First, we have granted

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