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Presumptive heir
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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
Presumptive title
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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 … of kin under the statute of Distributions; by the nineteenth s., that no will shall be revoked by presumption of an intention on the ground of alteration in circumstances; by the twentieth s., 'that no will or
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 … security, yet equity holds that it could never have been intended that their interests should survive, the fair presumption being that each means to lend his own money, and to be repaid his own again. The consequence
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 … disseised by B., then, while the possession continues in B., it is a mere possession unsupported by any presumption of right, and A. may restore his possession by an entry on the land, without any previous action.
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