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Domicile

(animus revertendi). Two things, then, must concur to constitute domicile: first, residence; and secondly, the intention of making it the home of the party. There must be the fact and intent; for, as Pothier has truly observed,

Power

no estate was devised, and a statutory power to sell estates, as in the instance of the Land Tax Redemption Acts, are both Common Law authorities. The estate passed by force of the will or passes by

Remainder

creation of a particular estate, is at the same time limited over to another, who is to enjoy it after the determination of such particular estate. After 1925 remainders can operate only as equitable interests, and in

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Copyhold

copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified

Trust

of the public policy of the law, as, for instance, seeking to create a perpetuity, or accumulating annual income be-yond the statutory limits. By the (English) Trustee Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 59), s. 8,

Wills

(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, contingent, specific or residuary devises of real or personal property carry the income, and see the (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 31. S. 179, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, enables testators to

Cause of action

Iron and Steel Company Ltd. Kolkata v. Tiwari Roadlines, Hyderabad, AIR 2006 AP 1. Means every fact which it is necessary to establish to support a right to obtain a judgment, Prem Chand Vijay Kumar v. Yashpal

Tenure

holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use

Oath

Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy

Executor

2 Ch 13. Probate of the will, when obtained, is only evidence of his title; as a rule it relates back to the time of the testator' death, and as the executor derives full power from the

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