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Rent
624, where a distress for rent after a bill of exchange had been given for it was held good; but in Bramley v. Palmer, (1895) 2 QB 405, it was held that the giving of such a … but that Act has abolished the priority, see Shirreff v. Hastings, (1877) 6 Ch D 610, and see now the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 34. As to the apportionment of rents, see the L.P. Act,
Personal property
to conveyances of freehold land or choses in action by a husband to a wife or e contra. Now, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 72, a person may convey real or personal property … Personal property, money, goods, cattle, chattels, stocks, shares, securities, debts, etc., and also leases for years, however long. Personal property is either
Forgery
or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument … 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate,
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Executor
appointing a different person executor, the acts of the former executor so long as his title existed are good, Hewson v. Shelley, (1914) 2 Ch 13. Probate of the will, when obtained, is only evidence of his … directed, especially if they be of a perishable nature. (6) As an executor cannot sue himself, the law now allows him, when he has been legally invested with his representative character, to retain out of any assets
Notice
by itself give notice of a trust; and see also s. 113 (ibid.), which absolves persons dealing in good faith with a mortgagee or with the mortgagor after discharge of the mortgage from any duty to inquire … 643, where the Court of Appeal held that s. 93 of the (English) Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, and now ss. 79-83, and 87 of the (English) Companies Act,1929, avoided an unregistered mortgage as against a subsequent registered
Equitable mortgage
L.C. Act, 1925, they are to be deemed to remain an equitable estate as against a purchaser in good faith without notice [(English) Law of Properties Act, 1925, Sch. I, Pts. VII and VIII]. Registration not being … redemption, which is merely a right to bring an action in the Chancery Division to redeem the estate. Now under the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, Sched. I., Parts VII. (1), (3), and VIII. (1), (3), and see
Age
to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of the infant's capacity to discern good from evil (malitia supplet 'tatem-malice supplies age). The old rule in criminal matters was that a person of … may, it seems, be convicted of indecent assault, Reg. v. Williams, 1893 (1) QB 320. The penalties are now regulated by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), which
Beer
the keeper of a beerhouse should obtain as a condition precedent to his excise license a certificate of good character, signed by six rate payers not engaged in the trade. The (English) Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869 … been proved to bear a bad character or the house to be below a certain rateable value. See now (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), which defines 'beerhouse' as
Magna Carta
a very old institution of our judicial system. The 13th chapter relates to assizes of darrein presentment, a now abolished method of trying the right to present a priest to an ecclesiastical benefice. The 14th chapter is … or our bailiffs shall not seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the present goods and chattels of the debtor do suffice to pay the debt, and the debtor himself be ready to
Allowance
of the commodity, was formerly made on most foreign Articles sold by the pound avoirdupois; but it is now nearly discontinued by merchants, or else allowed in the price. It is wholly abolished at the East India … Prov.; louer, allouer, Fr., to place or assign], a deduction, an average payment, a portion. Also in selling goods, or in paying duties upon them, certain deductions are made from their weights, depending on the nature of
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