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Recorder
Recorder, in municipal boroughs having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, a barrister of five years' standing at least, appointed by the Crown, holding office during good behaviour, and receiving 'such yearly salary not exceeding that...
Vestry, or vestiary
Vestry, or vestiary, a place or room adjoining to a church, where the vestments of the minister are kept; also, a parochial assembly commonly convened in the vestry, to transact the parish business. By custom in...
Transfer
Transfer, a permanent alienation is a transfer and a permanent alienation includes the several kinds of transfers, namely, sale, exchange or gift, Syed Jalal v. Targopal Ram Reddy, AIR 1970 AP 19. Transfer, cannot have the...
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Tree
Webb, 1895 AC 1. No right can be acquired by prescription for trees to overhang: per Lord Macnaghten, ibid.; and an action lies for damage to crops by overhanging trees, Smith v. Giddy, (1904) 1 KB 448.
Tritavus
Tritavus, a great-grandfather's great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree, Ibid.
Trust
Trust, is a comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which...
Trust for sale
Trust for sale. Trusts for sale of land were commonly crated in settlements and well-drawn wills. The effect was to convert realty into personalty so that the proceeds devolved upon the beneficiaries as personalty unless they...
Underwriter
Underwriter, an insurer of ships, so called from his writing his name under the policy of insurance. See INSURANCE. Also subscribers (generally before a public issue by the company) offering to take all or a stated...
Undischarged bankrupt
Undischarged bankrupt. Transactions by an un-discharged bankrupt with any person dealing with him bona fide and for value in respect of any property, real or personal, acquired by the bank-rupt after adjudication, are valid against the...
Usance
ce jour. See Byles on Bills. As to the usance between London and the various foreign countries, see ibid. The time allowed for payment of foreign bill of exchange, sometimes set by custom but now usu. by
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