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VerbarJujutsu
by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance dislocate or break a joint etc It opposes knowledge and skill to brute strength and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of … go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies. The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly,
Debenture
against the liquidator and any creditor of the company unless the charge is registered with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies in manner prescribed by the Act, within 21 days from the date of execution of the … and is only a promise to pay, is properly described as a debentures, and as a marketable security will require to be stamped as such, Spenyer v. Inland Revenue Commissioners, (1907)1 KB 246. By the (English) Companies
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Married women's property
exceptions and modifications:- 1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him … her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:- 1) Her freehold estate became his to manage
Release
l'estate), as where a coparcener conveys his estate to his coparcener, or where one of more than two joint tenants conveys his interest to one or more but not all of the others so as to sever … severance. See Halsbury, L. of E., tit. 'Release.' In consequence of the privity between such parties, a fee-simple will pass without any words of limitation. Tenants in common, however, could not thus release to one another, since
tenancy
of the original tenancy [liable for payment of rent in a holdover tenancy] called also tenancy at sufferance joint tenancy : a tenancy in which two or more parties hold equal and simultaneously created interests in the … expiration of the previous tenancy (as one under a lease), that may be established as a tenancy at will by the recognition of the landlord (as by accepting rent), and that may sometimes be statutorily converted to
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
(English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. … any of the others. The same principle is not applicable to an acknowledgement by one of several persons jointly liable. It appears that the acknowledgement of anyone binds them all, Roddam v. Morley, 1 De G &
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an estate-tail; but if he have issue at the time, B. and his children may, upon construction, take joint estates for life, 6 Rep. 16 b; Tud. L.C. on Real Property, 2nd Edn. 542, 581. The rule … apply to personalty; see Audsley v. Horn, (1858) 26 Beav 195: 1 De GF&J 226; 2 Jarm. on Wills; Theobald on Wills. The rule has apparently been abolished in regard to wills coming into operation after 1925.
partnership
a business for profit as co-owners see also Uniform Partnership Act in the Important Laws section compare corporation, joint venture, sole proprietorship NOTE: Except in civil law as practiced in Louisiana, where a partnership, like a corporation, … the buying and selling of goods called also non-commercial partnership compare trading partnership in this entry partnership at will : a partnership whose duration is not fixed by contract and that is terminable at will by any
Constructive trust
lien, and a person purchases it for value, with either actual or constructive notice of it, the estate will still be subject to the trust or equitable interest in the hands of such a purchaser. The doctrine … for themselves. This doctrine is extended to the renewal of leases by one of several persons or partners jointly interested, by an agent, mortgagor, or mortgagee, or by a person jointly interested with an infant, but, if
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