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advowson is appendant, or if an advowson in gross, may present; and his right descends by cause of inheritance, from heir to heir, or passes to a devisee or purchaser, unless the benefice become vacant in the

Nativo habendo

Nativo habendo, a writ that lay to a sheriff from a lord who claimed inheritance in any villein, when his villein had absconded, for the apprehending and restoring him to such lord. It

Lease and release

Statute of Enrolments (27 Hen. 8, c. 16) seemed to be confined to cases where an estate of inheritance or freehold, or the use thereof, was to be made or take effect by reason only of a

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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

Frater fratri uterino non succedet in h'reditate paterna.

Frater fratri uterino non succedet in h'reditate paterna.--(A brother shall not succeed a uterine brother in the paternal inheritance.) The maxim is now superseded; for by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106),

Estate

estates in a threefold view, thus: (1) The quantity of interest or duration, divided into-- (A) Freeholds of inheritance, which are subdivided into-- (a) Absolute or fee simple. (b) Limited fees; which are (a) qualified or base

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

Appendant

Appendant, a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is more worthy; as an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to

Hereditary

Descended or capable of descending from an ancestor to an heir at law received or passing by inheritance or that must pass by inheritance as an hereditary estate or crown

purchase

purchase pur·chased pur·chas·ing vt 1 : to acquire (real property) by means other than descent or inheritance 2 : to obtain by paying money or giving other valuable consideration ;specif : to take (property) by

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