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Settlement
the person first named. See last title, and SETTLEMENT ESTATE DUTY. The conveyance of property -- or of interests in property -- to provide for one or more beneficiaries, usu. members of settlor's family in a way … Settlement, means an agreement ending a dispute or a law suit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377. Settlement, suggests that, in the process of
Confusion of boundaries
to keep up and preserve the boundaries between their respective estates, and it enabled all persons having an interest to bring a suit to have the boundaries between them settled; and this, whether they were tenants for … usufructuar-ies, mortgagees, or proprietors. The action was called actio finium regundorum; and if the possession were also in dispute, that might be ascertained and fixed in the same suit, and indeed was incident to it. Equity adopts
Disclaimer
fee may, by deed, without matter of record, disclaim the estate devised, and after such disclaimer has no interest in the estate. An heir-at-law could not disclaim. An executor may, before probate, 'disclaim,' or as it is
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Locus standi
bill or special procedure order to be heard upon his petition. A petitioner has locus standi which his interest is directly hit by the bill, if passed into law, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abrahan and S.C. hawtrey, 1956,
Industrial and Provident Societies
labour, trade, or handicraft, in-cluding the buying or selling of land, of which no member shall claim an interest in the funds exceeding 200l.' This Act was repealed and re-enacted with amend-ment by the (English) Industrial and
Punishment
or 'to inflict penalty for the offence'. Any action of the employer to the detriment of the workmen's interest would not be punishment so long as no offence was found to have been committed by the workman.
Borough Funds Acts
their control to promoting or opposing bills in Parliament or to prosecute or defend legal proceedings in the interest of their constituents, but will not allow of their indemnifying the chief constable for costs he has incurred
Controlled industry
of which by the Union has been declared by any Central Act to be expedient in the public interest. [Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (37 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (d); Also see Employees' Provident
Feigned issue
109), s. 19, questions of fact were often tried by means of a pretended wager between the parties interested. But by the last-named Act, in every case, where any Court of Law or Equity desired to have
ownership
ownership : the state, relation, or fact of being an owner ;also : the rights or interests of an owner [reduced their by one third] absolute ownership : ownership esp. by a single person that … and that sometimes is recognized in cases of purchase of the property by an innocent third party [a dispute arising from the dealer's ostensible ownership and sale of the collateral] NOTE: A purchaser from a person with
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