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Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
to levy distress or resume possession of property by landlords and of mortgagees to foreclose or realize their security. This Act was followed by a series of complicated statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and
Tail
(if unbarred) have devolved, and a recovery at the Common Law (which was a real action carried onto judgment), giving the fee-simple absolute. these were abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833, here described inconsequence of … keep down the interest, yet, having only a particular interest, he is not bound to pay off any charge or incumbrance affecting the estate; if, however, he do so, the presumption is that the meant to exonerate
power
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 powers : the political
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Executor
DEBTS. (7) The executor may, even after action commenced by an adverse creditor and at any time before judgment therein, pay one creditor in preference to another of equal degree. After an order for administration has been
Court
from having some of the trappings of a judicial tribunal, power to give a decision or a definitive judgment which has finality and authoritativeness which are the essential tests of a judicial pronouncement, K. Shamrao v. Assistart
Uses
in a will as if they were limited by deed, if such was the testator's intent. See the judgment of Jessel, M.R., in Baker v. White, (1875) LR 20 Eq 166. The practical advantages of the system,
County Courts
Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam, or writ of false judgment. Outlawries ofabsconding offenders were here proclaimed. Far more important inferior tribunals have now been established throughout England. They … Any action of tort in the High Court may in like manner be remitted unless the plaintiff give security for the defendant's costs, or satsify judge of the High Court that he has a cause of actionfit
Magna Carta
or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pas upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. To no man will we sell, to no … efficacious process, because thesaurus regis est pacis vinculum et bellorum nervi (the public revenue is at once the security of peace and the sinews of war). The 9th chapter perpetuates our right of self-government, the source and
trust
title remains in the trustee who has a duty to act affirmatively (as in exercising control, discretion, and judgment) with regard to the property compare passive trust in this entry alimony trust : a trust created often … reduces competition or is thought to present a threat of reducing competition compare antitrust 3 a : a charge or duty imposed in faith or confidence or as a condition of some relationship b : something committed
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