Infant Settlements Act 1855 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Conversion, equitable
an election. The nature of the property cannot be altered by the election of a trustee or an infant. Before 1926 money equitably converted into land descended to the heir upon an intestacy and land converted into … it is settled land and the rights of persons entitled as residuar, devisees or legatees under wills or settlements, Consult Lewin, Godefroi, or Underhill on Trusts. … or contract, marriage articles, settlement, or otherwise; and whether the money is actually deposited, or only covenanted to be paid, or whether the land is
Colony
is strictly a plantation), the English laws, so far as they are applicable to the condition of an infant colony, are ipso facto in force in such a colony, for there can be no existing laws to … peopled from some more ancient city or country. England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other … in number, extent, and value those of every other country. In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s.
Trust
beneficially, nothing being given to him but as trustee. Any person may be appointed a trustee except an infant [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 19], person of unsound mind or convicted of felony, or bankrupt or a … 'in tail'; in the case of an executed document, apt words of limitation were necessary [see Re Moncton's Settlement, (1913) 2 Ch 636; and Re Arden, Short v. Cam, (1935) 1 Ch 326]. See now the L.P.Act,
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