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freehold or copyhold tenure), is limited by any assurance to a person, and by the same assurance the inheritance of the same quality, i.e., either legal or equitable, is limited by way of remainder (with or without … to say, where the inheritance is to his heirs or right heirs he takes the fee-simple; and where it is to the heirs of his body an estate-tail general, 1 Steph. Com. In Coke's Reports in verse

Curtesy of England

by the curtesy has been abolished by the (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 45, with regard to the inheritance of every person dying after 1925, but undr s. 130, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, curtesy will arise as … Women's Property Act, 1882):-- (1) A canonicalor legal marriage. (2) Seisin of the wife; as to corporeal hereditaments, it must be a seisin indeed, either actualor virtual (Co. Litt. 29 a, n. 3; 8 Rep.96 a), but

Coparceners or parceners

died intestate, leaving two or more females as his co-heiresses; these, according to the canon of real property inheritance, all took together as coparceners or parceners, the law of primogeniture not obtaining among women in equal relationship … inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act of law only, i.e., by descent, which, in relation to this subject was of

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Freehold

thus represented, the ancestor. When the interest extended beyond the ancestor's life, it was called a freehold of inheritance, and when it only endured for the ancestor's life, it was a freehold not of inheritance. An estate … in ancient times by the phrase 'tenure in free socage,' and the only free lay-mode of holding property. It is derived from the feudal system, but the services connected with it were honourable and mild. The annihilation

inheritable

inheritable 1 : capable of being inherited 2 : capable of taking by inheritance in·her·i·ta·bil·i·ty [in-her-i-tə-bi-lə-tē] n in·her·it·able·ness n

Hindu Law

s. 4(1)(a) of the Hindu Succession Act are identical in words. The marumakkathayam law [the marumakkathayam system of inheritance means the system of inheritance by descent from a common ancestress. It is called a matrilineal system of … marumakkathayam law [the marumakkathayam system of inheritance means the system of inheritance by descent from a common ancestress. It is called a matrilineal system of inheritance and is somewhat different from the patrilineal system of inheritance in

Descent

methods of acquiring an estate in lands before 1926. It is defined in the interpretation clause of the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), as 'the title to inherit lands by reason of … Descent, one of the two chief methods of acquiring an estate in lands before 1926. It is defined in the interpretation clause of the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106),

Annuity

arrears of it do not carry interest (Re Hiscoe, (1902) 71 LJ Ch 347). A personal annuity of inheritance will pass under a general bequest, Aubin v. Daly, (1820) 4 B&A 59; In re Trenchard, 1905 (1) … personally on the grantor, CWT v. Arundhati Balkrishna, (1970) 1 SCC 561 (565): AIR 1971 SC 915. [Wealth Tax Act, 1957, s. 2(e)(iv)] An annuity is a fixed sum payable annually either in perpetuity or for any

estate tax

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Occupancy

heir or special occupant if it comes to him by reason of special occupancy of an estate of inheritance pur autre vie (q.v.) as assets by descent (as in the case of freehold land, in fee-simple); and … man, and died without alienation, during the life of the cestui que vie, or him by whose life it was holden; in this case, he that entered first on the land was called the occupant or common

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