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Hospitals

maimed, poor, needy, or impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with lands or hereditaments of the yearly value of 20l. For power of local authorities to provide hospitals for their districts, see

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,

King's silver

of Common Pleas for a licence granted to a man to levy a fine of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another person; and this must have been compounded, according to the value of the land, in the

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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

Goods and chattels

Goods and chattels, the general denomination of things personal, as distinguished from things real, or lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See CHATTELS.

Forest

or subject) may have either in his own lands or the lands of another, differing from other incorporeal hereditaments, which are rights exercised over another's lands. The owner of a forest is also considered (notwithstanding the general

Fee-simple

se minus. It may be enjoyed not only in land, but also in advowsons, commons, estovers, and other hereditaments as well as in personalty, as an annuity or dignity, and also in an upper chamber, though the

Extent

or recognizance, inquisition of debt, obligation, or specialty, or acceptance of office, shall affect any lands, tenements, or hereditaments as to pur-chasers or mortgagees, unless and until such memorandum or minute thereof, as in the Act provided,

Genus

all the members of which are differentiated by that quality or idea from any other class; e.g., incorporeal hereditament is genus with respect to a rent, which is species, Woolley's Introd. To Logic, 45; Mill's Log., Bk.

Water and watercourse

to provide against exceptional deficiencies of water due to drought; and other statutes. See RESERVOIR. Watercourse, an incorporeal hereditament, being a natural right which a man has to the benefit of the flow of a river or

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