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Magna Carta

to buy and sell, without any manner of evil tolts [i.e., extortions], by the old and rightful customs, except in time

Income

monetary return coming in with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity, from definite sources must be read with reference to

Real representative

name formerly given to a personal representative on whom real estate devolved on the death of any person between the 31st

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Water and watercourse

proprietor also of half the land covered by the stream, i.e., usque ad medium filum aqu'. A pre-scriptive prima facie right

Tail

see s. 131 ibid., and SHELLEY'S CASE), or in tail, i.e., to create the interest. Informal limitations which would have created

Receiver

entitled to exercise the power of sale under the Act (i.e., by s. 20, now (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 103,

Mortmain

several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious and other corporations, which were supposed to hold

Misconduct

(1127, 1128). [Punjab Municipal Act (3 of 1911), s. 16 (i)(e)] The word 'misconduct' is antithesis of the word 'conduct'. Thus,

Hold

SCR 587. 'Hold' means own. This expression connotes two concepts, i.e., physical possession or legal title to the vacant lands, Govt.

Chattels or catals

Hence, every tenancy of a definite duration is a term, i.e., a period accurately ascertained, during which the estate or interest

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