Heir At Law - Law Dictionary Search Results

words:-'First, we have granted to God, and by this our present charter have confirmed for us and our heirs for ever, that the Church of England shall be free and shall have her whole rights and liberties … (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963. This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished

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Remainder

varied if the gift were 'to you for your life, and after your decease to A. and his heirs ' or ' to you for twenty-one years, and subject to that estate to A. and his heirs … be an ulterior estate of freehold vested in some person, for otherwise there would be no vested freehold at law, which the law will not allow. There is not, however, any necessity for a preceding freehold to support

Coparceners or parceners

primogeniture not obtaining among women in equal relationship to their ancestor: they were, however, deemed to be one heir; and (2) descent by particular custom, as in the case of gavelkind lands, which descended to all the … from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act of law only, i.e., by descent, which, in relation to this subject was of two kinds:-(1) Descent by the common

Mortgage

a covenant or bond, or to foreclose in equity. When property is conveyed to a mortgagee and his heirs until out of its rents the loan and interest shall have been received, this is in the nature … they have been denominated mortgages, as the pledge is then dead or lost (mortuum vadium) to the mortgagor at law. A mortgage differs from a vifgage (vivium vadium), so called because neither loan nor property is lost, for

Purchase, Words of

freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the … considered as commencing in point of title, in the person described by them. 'It is a rule in law, known as the rule in Shelley's case, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate

force

door] see also forcible entry 2 : to impose or require by law see also elective share forced heir at heir forced sale at sale

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

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