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Possession
descended or conveyed to him; apparent, which is a species of presumptive title where land descended to the heir of an abator, intruder, or disseisor, who died seised; in law, when lands, etc., have descended to a
Special occupancy
Special occupancy. Where an estate was before 1926 granted to a man and his heirs during the life of cestui que vie, and the grantee dies before 1926 without alienation, and while the … 3, 6; but in case of death of the tenant pur autre vie, after 1925, the equitable interest apparently devolves on the special personal representatives of the deceased, and if he dies intestate, upon trust for sale
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
legis, and not ex provisione hominis; if, therefore, an estate be given to husband and wife, and the heirs of their bodies, should they afterwards be divorced causa pr'contractus vel consanguinitatis vel affinitatis, their estate is converted … to another, such other will be only a tenant pur autre vie, and will be punishable for waste. Apparently, impossibility will not be presumed on account of age, Co. Litt. 28 a. The attributes of this estate
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Trust
informal limitations in tail in executory instru-ments or wills to limitations of personalty, and s. 130 (1), which apparently directs that limitations in tail (without any reservation or qualification for the case of executory instruments or wills)
Heirloom
Heirloom [fr. h'res, Lat., heir, and geloma, Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, … to be created in personal as well as real estate (see TAIL). Under these Acts the word 'heirloom' apparently means a chattel intended to devolve with land. By s. 130(1), (English) L.P. Act, 1925, entailed chattels which
Dower
part of the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty by metes and bounds, for … 1833, has been repealed by the A.E. Act, 1925, s. 45, for deaths after 1925, it is not apparent that the Act does not form an integral part of the old law. Where dower has been assigned
Wills
the time of his death, notwithstanding that by reason of illegitimacy or otherwise he did not leave an heir or next-of-kin surviving him. The fourth and fifth sections relate to dispositions of copyhold estates, and the sixth … valid except so far as the words or effect of the will before such alteration shall not be apparent, unless such alteration shall be executed as is required for the execution of the will, but the will
Joint-tenancy
and B. for their lives, they become joint-tenants of the freehold; if to A. and B. and their heirs, they are then joint-tenants of the fee. While equity recognises this rule, yet it has laid down many … may obtain a title under the Statute against the other or others. The entry of the one joint-tenant apparently does not vest the possession of another joint-tenant; see Carson's Real Property Statutes (notes to s. 12, supra).
Married women's property
him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law. (2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses … alienation by statute before the 2nd August, 1935, or by any instrument executed before the 1stjanuary, 1936, and apparently for that purpose an instrument is to be deemed to be executed before 1936 if the restraint was
Presumptive title
one man disseises another; or where after the death of the ancestor, and before the entry of the heir, a stranger abates and holds out the heir. The law assumes that the actual occupant of land has … lowest order, arises out of the mere occupation or simple possession of property (jus possessionis, Lat.), without any apparent right, or any pretence of right, to hold and continue such possession. This may happen when one man
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