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Dignities

Dignities, a species of incorporeal hereditament, in which a man may have a property or estate. As an incorporeal hereditament, a dignity was held

Intestates Estates Act, 1884 (English)

s.s, when a person died intestate and without an heir, his estate, legal or equitable, in any incorporeal hereditament, and any equitable estate in any corporeal hereditament, escheated to the Crown. Provision was also made for the

Exchange, Deed of

L.P. Act, 1925, s. 57, the conveyance of the interest is sufficient without entry. An exchange of corporeal hereditaments lying in the same county could be made by parol perfected by entry; but under L.P. Act, 1925,

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Escheat

by the (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 56, it was provided that equitable estates and estates in incorporeal hereditaments (which prior to that Act did not escheat) shall be subject to the same law of escheat as

Curtesy of England

Married Women's Property Act, 1882):-- (1) A canonicalor legal marriage. (2) Seisin of the wife; as to corporeal hereditaments, it must be a seisin indeed, either actualor virtual (Co. Litt. 29 a, n. 3; 8 Rep.96 a),

Deed

under an indenture executed after the 1st October, 1845, an immediate estate or interest in any tenements or hereditaments, and the benefit of a condition or covenant respecting any tenements or hereditaments, may be taken, although the

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the legal estate in land. Any number of these legal

Way

a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament. A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called

Licence

authority is often called a licence. A licence amounting to or coupled with an interest in an incorporeal hereditament must be under seal [see Wood v. Leadbitter, (1845) 13 M&W 838], or it may be revocable, but

Feoff

To invest with a fee or feud to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to to enfeoff

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