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Terms

By the first of these enactments Hilary Term began on the 11th and ended on the 31st of January; Easter Term began on the 15th of April and ended on the 8th of May; Trinity Term began

Tenure

1925, extinguished the customs of borough-English and gavelkind and all tenures which were not immediately before the 1st January, 1926, freehold or leasehold, grand or petty serjeanty, or frankalmoigne and converted them nominally, subject to the provisions

Tail

31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which these were converted on the 1st January, 1926, or created after that date. An estate-tail, or more accurately now, an equitable interest in tail, is

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Summary judgment

III., Rule 6, and Order XIV., extended to recovery of land for non-payment of rent by R.S.C. of January, 1902. This procedure has been very largely followed in recent years. see LEAVE TO DEFEND. A judgment granted

Sittings

1936, 12th October), and terminate on the 21st of December; the Hilary sittings commence on the 11th of January and terminate on the Wednesday before Easter; the Easter sittings commence on the Tuesday after Easter week and

Receiver

of Property Act, 1925, s. 101, in the case of a mortgage executed on or after the 1st January, 1882, the mortgagee, when the mortgage money has become due, may appoint a receiver of the income of

Simple trust

Part II., par. (3), as amended by the L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, vesting the estate existing on 1st January, 1926, in the beneficial owner by force of the statute.

Shifting use

use of C. and his heirs. The legal estates thereby created have been converted as from the 1st January, 1925, into equitable interests (see Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 1 and 39 and the 1st Sch.,

Shelley's case, Rule in

1925; but the rule governs the construction of all instruments which have come into operation before the 1st January, 1926. The rule may be described thus: Where a life free-hold, either legal or equitable in realty (whether

Settled land

The (English) Settled Land Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 38), came into operation on the 1st January, 1883, was retrospective, and though not repealing the Act of 1877, rendered its provisions comparatively useless. The main

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