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obligation
obligation that may be enforced by the successor of the obligee or against the successor of the obligor joint obligation 1 : an obligation binding different obligors to a performance for one obligee 2 : an obligation … obligation under civil law may arise by operation of law, naturally, or by contract or other declaration of will. The elements of an obligation are: the parties, an object, the relationship by virtue of which one party
Executrix
Executrix, a woman appointed by a testator to perform his will. By the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 75), s. 18, a married … married woman is able to acquire and hold any interest in property real or personal either alone or jointly as a trustee or personal representative as if she were a feme sole.
Foreign Attachment
and see Cox v. Lord Mayor of London, (1867) LR 2 HL 239; Mayor of London v. London Joint Stock Bank, (1881) 6 App Cas 393, which exempts corporations from the process, and decides that fictitious summonses … plaint be affirmed in London before, etc., against any person, and it be returned nihil, if the plaintiff will surmise that another person within the city is a debtor to the defendant in any sum, he shall
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Estate
(c) tenancy in dower. (C) Estates less than freehold, sub-divided into-- (a) Estates for years. (b) Estates at will. (c) Estates at sufferance. (D) Estates upon condition, sub-divided into-- (a) Estates upon condition implied. (b) Estates uponcondition … Reversions arising by operation of law. (3) The number and connection of the tenants; either (A) Severalty. (B) Joint-tenancy. (C) Coparceny. (D) Tenancy in common. (E) Entireties. 2. Bl. Com. cc. vii.-xii. According to article 31-A(2)-- (a)
Stridhan
is her absolute property with all rights to dispose at her own pleasure. It does not become a joint property of the wife and the husband has no title or independent dominion over the property as owner … likes-she may spend the whole of it or give it away at her own pleasure by gift or will without any reference to her husband. Ordinarily, the husband has no right or interest in it with the
Income
2 SCC 505. Maintenance ordered to be paid by the Divorce Division to a bankrupt wife during the joint lives of herself and her former husband, was held to be 'income', Landau case, (1934) Ch 549 (554, … would not partake the character of income. Qua the public servant, whatever return he gets from his service, will be the primary item of his income. Other incomes which conceivably are income qua the public servant, will
annuity
a certain or uncertain period 2 : the grant of or the right to receive an annuity [his will included annuities for several old friends] 3 : a contract (as with an insurance company) under which one … of benefits begins within the first payment interval (as within a year) compare deferred annuity in this entry joint-and-survivor annuity : an annuity payable as long as any of the two or more annuitants remains alive called
Uses
to take the profits; and (2) upon the request of the cestui que use, or notice of his will, would convey the estate to the cestui que use or his heirs, or any other person by his … that the old trustee should have first enfeoffed A., who would have re-enfeoffed the old and new trustees jointly, thereby making two conveyances necess-ary. Indeed, in the case of terms for years, and other personal property, two
Hire-purchase system
an agreement that when a certain number of payments have been completed, the absolute property in the goods will pass to the hirer, but so that the hirer may return the goods at any time without any … wife, in whose name the premises have not been taken. To avoid this, landlords should let the premises jointly--or prove that they were in the order and disposition (see that title) of the hirer with the consent
Recovery
purpose of proving the suffering of the recovery. In a recovery deed the proper parties, either alone or jointly with other persons, as circumstances might have required, were: (1) the person who had the immediate freehold; (2) … C. to warranty. C. was a man of no substance (generally the crier of the Court), who was willing to allow a judgment to be given against him. C. admitted, contrary to the fact, that he had
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