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Registration of title of land

by trusts arising prior to the first registration, of which the purchaser has actual or constructive notice either upon investigation of title or otherwise if these trusts have not been over-reached upon conveyance under the (English) Law … not guaranteed unless separately registered. All registered land, irrespectively of the nature of title, remains subject to 'over-riding interests.' See below, notwithstand-ing registration. All estates and interests in land which come under the description of 'legal estates'

Equitable estates and interests

in real estate into the legal estate, although the statute did not extend to any use or trust upon a use (Tyrrel's case (1557) Dyer, 155 a), and the statute did not more than to impose a … Equitable estates and interests, Rights relating to property of which the legal ownership is vested in another person, or in the equitable

Constructive trust

land sold for unpaid purchase money, and generally, when an estate is subject to a trust or equitable interest or lien, and a person purchases it for value, with either actual or constructive notice of it, the … Constructive trust, a trust which the Court elicits by a construction put upon certain acts of parties. It arises upon a vendor's lien or charge upon land sold for unpaid purchase

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power

the power of a government to exercise reasonable control over persons and property within its jurisdiction in the interest of the general security, health, safety, morals, and welfare except where legally prohibited (as by constitutional provision) reserved … in chief of the armed forces b : an ability, authority, or right usually conferred by one person upon another to do something that effects a change in a legal relationship ;specif : such authority or right

Settled land

married woman of full age in possession for a legal estate or any other interest with a restraint upon anticipation, or [sub-s. (v.)] charged voluntarily, or in consideration of marriage or by way of family arrangement with … For the purposes of the (English) Settled Land Acts, 1882-1890, 'settled land' meant land, and any estate and interest therein, which was the subject of a settlement; and 'settlement' meant any instrument, or any number of instruments,

Personal property

Court of Chancery, to carry out the obvious intention, would hold that A. was entitled to a life interest merely, and that B. had during the life of A. a vested interest in remainder of which he … where a man has not the actual occupation of the thing, but only a right to it arising upon some contract, and recoverable by an action at law.Any person may assign personal property, including chattels real, directly

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the legal estate in land. Any number of these legal estates can exist in respect of the same … land may be held in fee simple, leased and mortgaged at the same time. all other estate and interests inland are reduced to equitable interests. All mortgages of the same legal estate under the statutory conditions are

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken. In the case of simple

Expectant heir

than the risk run by the lender requires. At Common Law all such loans are good, and the interest upon them, however high, recoverable. By the Usury Acts, indeed-which, however, did not apply to loans to expectant heirs

Real representative

A. E. act, 1925, provides:- '(1) Real estate (q.v.) to which a deceased person was entitled for an interest not ceasing on his death shall, on his death and notwithstanding any testamentary disposition thereof, devolve from time … of the deceased. These provisions, and s. 30 of the (English) Con-veyancing Act, 1881 (relating to the devolution upon the personal representative of trust and mortgage estates belonging to the deceased), were consolidated and extended by the

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