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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

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),

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

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Valuation list

Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, in England outside the county of London, a list of all the rateable hereditaments in a rating area (and not in a parish) is to be prepared by the rating authority, i.e.,

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

Personal action

redress for breach of contract, or other injuries, of whatever description, the specific recovery of lands, tenements, and hereditaments only excepted. The term has been used in a narrower sense to express an action for injury to

Use and occupation, Action for

landlord, where the agreement is not by deed, to recover a reasonable satisfaction for the lands, tenements, or hereditaments held or occupied by the defendant in an action on the case, for the use or occupation of

Trust

Property Act, 1925], requires that 'all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments shall be manifested and proved by some writing, signed by the party who is by law enabled to

Things

distinguished from persons. They are distributed into three kinds: (1) things real or immovable, comprehending lands, tenements, and hereditaments; (2) things personal or movable comprehending goods and chattels; and (3) things mixed, partaking of the characteristics of

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