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Mancipatio

subjection and made free he must be twice sold and bought, his natural father being in the first instance the vendor. The vendee was called pater fiduciarius. After this fictitious bargain, the pater fiduciarius sold him again

Melius inquirendum, ad

lands or tenements a man died seised, on finding an office for the king, Fitz. N.B. 255. For instance of a second inquiry before a coroner, see Reg. v. Carter (1876) 45 LJQB 711; and for express

Frank-almoigne

expressly excepted in the 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 7, and therefore still subsisted in some few instances until 1926, when by repeal of the exception in 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 7, under the

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Easement

distinguished from a profit a prendre (q.v.), which confers a right to take something from the servient tenement. Instances of easements are rights of way, light, support, or flow of water. Easements have been classified as positive,

Firm

is not a person in law, see Re Smith, (1914) 1 Ch 948, per Joyce, J., and the instances there given by the learned judge of the effect of a legacy or an assurance to a firm.

Deed

(II.) Those making it voidable, not being void from the beginning; as (a) By dissent of parties, for instance the repudiation of an infant's deed after majority. (b) By dissent of strangers, as the grantee of a

Conditional fee

restrictions, the fee qualified will cease; but it may possibly, as is obvious, continue for ever, in those instances especially where the qualification is not certain to take place. The estates will then continue precisely in the

Confusion, property by

settled; but the same rule does not, in all cases, hold against the creditors of such agent: for instance, if an agent pay money belonging to his employer into his own banking-house, and to his general account,

Consideration

was held in Eastwood v. Kenyon, (1840) 11 A&E 438, after many conflicting decisions on the subject. Other instances of insufficient consideration or absence of consideration maybe found in:' Cooke v. Oxley, (1790) 3 TR 653, and

Constructive notice

takes, if at all, subject to the title or claim, whether he knew of it or not; for instance, a purchaser of land who is satisfied to take a shorter title than he could call for by

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