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as determined by a body of facts and events after-acquired title : title that vests automatically in a grantee when acquired by a grantor who purported to sell the property before acquiring title ;also : a doctrine

Purchase, Words of

an estate in fee simple in law, but any words of limitation other than the conveyance to the grantee simply are unnecessary for that purpose. (L.P. Act, 1925, s. 60)

Quid Juris clamat

which remained with the custos brevium of the Common Pleas before it was engrossed: it lay for the grantee of a reversion or a remainder, when the particular tenant would not attorn, Reg. Jud. 571.

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Qui prior est tempore potior est jure

better in law.) Broom's Leg. Max. Equitable incumbrances rank as a rule according to their dates; the first grantee in potior, that is, potentior; he has a better and superior, because a prior, equity, Phillips v. Phillips,

Quem redditum reddit

Quem redditum reddit, means 'which return he made'. A writ for a grantee of a rent (not a rent service) to force the tenant to consent to the transfer, Black's Law

Quasi-entail

cestui que vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend, if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body. And such estate may also be granted with a remainder thereon during

Quando aliquid conceditur id etiam conceditur sine quo res ipsa non esse potest

conceditur id etiam conceditur sine quo res ipsa non esse potest is always true is between grantor and grantee, but that does not necessarily apply as against third parties, Raja Maharaj Kumar Satya Niranjan Chakravarti v. Ram

Per and post

claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate, as the heirs or assigns of the grantee: to come in the post is to claim by a paramount and prior title, as the lord by

Privies

representation, as executors or administrators to their deceased testator or intestate. (3) Privies in estate, as grantor and grantee, lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee, etc. (4) Privities, in respect of contract, are personal privities, and extend

Per my et per tout

any joint tenant severs by alienating his share he destroys the joint tenancy in that share and the grantee obtains no joint tenancy. See JOINT TENANTS; ENTIRETIES.

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