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Settled land
and empowered him to do almost anything that a judicious owner would wish to do, subject to one great exception--he could not sell the estate and himself receive the purchase money; that must be paid at his … Act of 1884 restored the rights of the trustees under the trust for sale, unless and until an order has been made by the Court authorizing the tenant for life to sell: see Settled Land Act, 1884,
Consideration
be so insufficient as to 'shock the conscience,' equity would quash the contract, upon the ground that such great inequality betokens mutual mistake, or fraud or undue advantage on the one side, or mental incompetency on the … will be inferred. A simple contract, that is to say, a promise by word of mouth or in writing which is not a deed, requires valuable consideration to support it, but if the promise is by deed,
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