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equitable, is limited by way of remainder (with or without the interposition of any other estate) to his heirs or the heirs of his body, such remainder is immediately executed in possession in the person so taking … connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is the antique feudal doctrine generally known as the rule in Shelley's Case, which is reported by Lord Coke in 1 Rep. 93 b
Tail
disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not … an equitable interest in tail, is an estate limited to a person and the heirs of his body general or special, male or female, and was the creature of the statute De Donis. The estate, if the
Fixtures
his interest were not terminated by his own act, Woodfall, L. and T. (2) Before 1926, between the heir and the personal representative of the terre-tenants. Though the fixtures will generally pass with the freehold to the … united to some erection attached to the ground, the question arises-when may the tenant remove such fixtures? The general rule as to annexations made by a tenant during the continuance of his term is the following-Whenever he
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
Hetman
A Cossack headman or general The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia
General tail
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Tenure
this tenure were reliefs or payments upon succession aids, or contributions to the lord, wardships and marriage of heirs succeeding in infancy and escheat. Grand serjeanty was another species of tenure which some writes think was superior … soil, designated by the term 'seisin,' which is the highest interest a subject can acquire. As to tenures generally, see 2 Bl. Com. 59 et seq. Without tracing the origin of tenure back into remote antiquity, it
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