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liberty of passing over his grounds, to go to church, market or the like, in which case the gift or grant is particular and confined to the grantee alone; it dies with the person; the grantee cannot

Warrantor potest excipere quod qu'rens non tenet terram de qua petit warrantiam, et quod donum fuit insufficiens

object that the complaint does not hold the land of which he seeks the warranty, and that the gift was insufficient.)

Wakfs-alal-aulad

Wakfs-alal-aulad, A wakf-alal-aulad is a gift of property to God almighty for certain purposes, Mohd. Ismail v. Sabir Ali, AIR 1962 SC 1722 (1727).

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Voluntas donatoris in charta doni sui manifeste expressa observetur

sui manifeste expressa observetur (Co. Litt. 21a), the Will of the donor, manifestly expressed in his deed of gift, is to be observed

Voluntary conveyance

Voluntary conveyance. A conveyance by way of gift or otherwise without valuable consideration. Liable to be defeated, under 27 Eliz. c. 4, by a subsequent sale

Unconscionable transaction

Unconscionable transaction, the circumstances that a grandfather made a gift of a portion of his properties to his only grandson a few years before his death is not

Uncertainty

will are so vague that no meaning with definite limits can be assigned to them, the grant or gift is void for uncertainty: as if one bequeath 'some of his property' to A., or all his property,

Trust

or if the trust established do not exhaust the property given, the donee retains, in virtue of the gift, so much of the property as is not affected with the trust; but if property be given to

Transfers of land

Transfers of land, does not protect gift of land without consideration, Shakuntala v. State of Haryana, AIR 1979 SC 843: (1979) 3 SCC 226.

To be at his own disposal

if the said profits are to be as 'at his own disposal' for such purpose. There is no gift for the benefit of the executor in such cases, Chapman Hales v. A.G., (1922) 2 Ch 479.

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