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by: (1) Occupancy. (2) Invention. (3) Prerogative. (4) Forfeiture. (5) Custom. (6) Succession. (7) Marriage. (8) Judgment. (9) Gift or grant. (1) Contract. (11) Bankruptcy. (12) Will. (13) Administration. (14) Statute.

Subreption

Subreption, the obtaining a gift from the Crown by concealing what is true.

Possibility

possibility coupled with an interest in any tene-ments or hereditaments, of any tenure, whether the object of the gift or limitation of such possibility be or be not ascertained, may be disposed of by deed. [(English) Real

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Stridhan

manner she likes-she may spend the whole of it or give it away at her own pleasure by gift or will without any reference to her husband. Ordinarily, the husband has no right or interest in it

Sponte oblata

Sponte oblata, a free gift or present to the Crown

Sharping corn

Sharping corn, a customary gift of corn which, at every Christmas, the farmers in some parts of England give to their smith for

Settlement

Means settling the property, right or claim-convey-ance or disposition of property for the benefit of another, Commissioner of Gift Tax v. N.S. Getty, AIR 1971 SC 2410: (1971) 2 SCC 741: (1972) 1 SCR 736. Means a

Separate estate

unmarried woman. A wife's separate property might be acquired by a pre-nuptial contract with her husband, or by gift, either from the husband, or from any other person. the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (see MARRIED

Repugnant

of two contradictory clauses prevails, but in other writings the earlier. Conditions which are repugnant to a previous gift or limitation are void, Bradley v. Peixoto, (1797) 3 Ves 325; Britton v. Twining, (1817) 3 Mer 184;

Release

Release [fr. relaxtio, Lat.], a gift, discharge, or renunciation of a right of action (see SURETY CON-SIDERATION); also a Common Law conveyance of a

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