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Hierloom

Hierloom. See HEIRLOOM.

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Dut.; appui, Fr.], an enclosed seat in a church. It is some what in the nature of an heirloom, and may descend by immemorial custom, without any ecclesiastical concurrence, from an ancestor to his heir. Consult Cripps's

Principal

Principal, a head, a chief; also, a capital sum of money placed out at interest; also, an heirloom, mortuary, or cross-present.

Chattels or catals

years; (b) from year to year; (c) at will; (d) by elegit; and (e) on sufferance. See also HEIRLOOMS.

Fixtures

applies as in the last case, see Leigh v. Taylor, 1902 AC 157; and see now as to heirlooms generally, (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 67, and also (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 130.

Hereditaments

physical object, money which is liable to be invested in land and is treated in equity as land; heirlooms and certain rights in land and other rights. Hereditaments are either corporeal or incorporeal. Incorporeal hereditaments include (1)

Mixed subjects of property

they are contained, ancient family pictures, ornaments, tomb-stones, costs of armour, with pennons and other ensigns, and especially heirlooms.

Quasi-realty

Quasi-realty, things which are fixed in contempla-tion of law to realty but movable in themselves, as heirlooms (or limbs of the inheritance), title-deeds, Court rolls, etc.

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