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Marriage settlement

estate it is now more generally conveyed (see TRUST FOR SALE) to trustees upon trust to sell and hold the proceeds upon the trusts declared by a deed of even date, which declares the trusts of the

Mesne Lord

Mesne Lord, a lord who holds of a superior lord, and of whom an inferior (tenant paravail) holds.

Nominal partner

his name to be used holds himself out to the world as apparently having an interest. See PARTNERSHIP; HOLDING OUT.

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Nomine poena

to the landlord being done by the tenant, as if he should plough up pasture. The (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (1 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), by s. 29 restricts penal rents to actual damage

harmless

harmless 1 : free from harm, liability, or loss often used in the phrase to hold harmless see also hold harmless 2 : lacking capacity or intent to injure harm·less·ly adv harm·less·ness n

Parish Council

The main duty of parish councils is to manage parish property. They are bodies corporate, having power to hold land without any license in mortmain, and to acquire by agreement land for recreation grounds and other parish

Personal property

life and after his decease to B., the Court of Chancery, to carry out the obvious intention, would hold that A. was entitled to a life interest merely, and that B. had during the life of A.

Possession

v. Mahngoo Tiwari, 1969 All WR (HC) 230. Possession, in common parlance denoted to occupy, to have or hold as owner, to obtain, to maintain, Krishna Prasad Jaiswal v. Kanti Gupta, (1996) 1 BLJ 45. Possession, indicates

Power of Court to order meeting to be called

or consequential directions as the Court thinks expedient, including directions modifying or supplementing in relation to the calling, holding and conducting of the meeting the operation of the provisions of this Act and of the company's articles.

Presumptive title

or simple possession of property (jus possessionis, Lat.), without any apparent right, or any pretence of right, to hold and continue such possession. This may happen when one man disseises another; or where after the death of

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