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Abridge
the abolition of real and mixed actions, by the (English) Real Property Limitations Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27), s. 36, and the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. C. … plaint or demand which was not in the tenure of the defendant; for if the defendant pleaded non-tenure, joint-tenancy, or the like, in abatement of the writ as to part of the lands, and plaintiff might leave
Deed
additional name should be stated so as to preserve identity on the face of the title. A mistake will not vitiate the instrument if the party can be identified by extraneous evidence, Nihil facit error nominis cum … be made a party to it. Parties are classified in parts according to their several interests. Persons having joint-interests except in a deed of partition should be of the same part, but those having distinct though undivided
Partnership
not secure for himself the limitation of liability until the limited partnership is registered with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, the registration being effected (s. 8) by the delivery of a statement, signed by the partners, … one general partner who is liable for all debts and obligations of the firm (s. 3). The partners will be known and described collectively by a 'firm name' (s. 3). A limited partnership in a banking business
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Insurance
underwriters. The underwriters meet in a subscription room at Lloyd's, at the back of the Royal Exchange. The joint affairs of the subscribers to these rooms are managed by a committee chosen by the sub-scribers. Agents (who … Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
bodies, should they afterwards be divorced causa pr'contractus vel consanguinitatis vel affinitatis, their estate is converted into a joint estate for life, and not into a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct, because their estate has been … 18, to bar the remainders or reversion over, and if he convey his interest to another, such other will be only a tenant pur autre vie, and will be punishable for waste. Apparently, impossibility will not be
Steward of manor
to the devolution of titles to formerly copyhold land and the extinguishment of manorial incidents. Should there be joint stewards, one may act without the other (1 Scriv. 130). In other manors the chief steward is usually … office is an action on the case for consequential damages. The King's Bench Division of the High Court will, upon a proper case made out, grant a writ of mandamus to restore a steward to his office.
Marriage
be incurable; it makes the marriage only voidable by a suit by one of the parties during their joint lives, A. v. B., (1868) LR 1 P&D 559, and the suit cannot be brought by the impotent … it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to
Abstract of title
title relates to different parcels of land or different interests, or (before 1926) the property formerly belonging to joint tenants, tenants in common, or coparceners; it is then better to arrange the documents relating to one portion … for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory
Limited liability
further liability exists. As to shares which have not been fully paid up, see CONTRIBUTORY, and see also JOINT STOCK BANKS, COMPANY, PROSPECTUS, ESTOPPEL, or other titles on company matters. The statutes relating to companies have been … that of common carriers (including railway companies by the (English) Carriers Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4, c. 68), as amended by the (English) Railways Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 55),
Husband and wife
s. 39, ibid., and the 6th sched. To that Act, Part III, tenancies by entireties was converted to joint tenancies upon trust for sale, and by s. 184, ibid., in cases where the survival of either husband … favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will. Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,'
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