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Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised,...
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...
Presentation
Presentation, the offering by the patron of a benefice to the ordinary of a person to be instituted to the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature...
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Person of full age
Person of full age, under the Settled Land Act,1925, means a person not being an infant, see Re Earl of Carnarvon's Settled Estates, (1927) 1 Ch 138, and therefore includes a corporation (ibid.). An infant cannot...
Minor
Minor, a person under twenty-one years of age. There is no legal distinction between a minor in this sense and an infant. See INFANT. Strictly speaking, in Scotland a minor is a person between the ages...
Maritagium
Maritagium, 1. A lord's right to arrange a married for his infant ward 2. Dower 3. Dowry; a marriage gift, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 980. Maritagium, the portion which is given with a daughter...
Label
Label [fr. labellum, Lat.], narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed, writing, to writ, hanging at or out of the same; and an appending seal is called a label (Jac. Law Dict.). As...
Widow
Widow, a woman whose husband is dead and who has not remarried, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1592. A widow is entitled equally with next of kin to administration of her deceased husband's estate subject...
Food
Food, Pan masala, gutka are held to be food within the meaning of s. 2(v) of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, Godawal Pan Masala Products Ltd. v. Union of India, (2004) 7 SCC 68 (101):...
Account stated
Account stated, An account stated is the admission of a balance due from one party to another, and that balance being due there is a debt; the statement of the account and the admission of the...
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