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De ventre inspiciendo
(i.e., verus not h'res apparens), or on behalf of a tenant-in-tail, or h'res factus, as a devisee in fee, in tail, or for life, to guard them against supposititious births. Obsolete. Consult Hubback on Succn. P. 391. … tail, or for life, to guard them against supposititious births. Obsolete. Consult Hubback on Succn. P. 391. See JURY-WOMAN.
Scintilla juris et tituli
of C., and then to the use of C. and his heirs, here B. immediately becomes tenant in fee by force of the statute; and to give him this estate the whole seisin of A. is exhausted; … Scintilla juris et tituli [Lat.] (a spark of law and title). A possibility of seisin, which was supposed to exist
Peers of fees
who had the title of peers, by way of distinction; whence, it is said, we derive our common juries and other peers, Cowel. … Peers of fees, vassals or tenants of the same lord, who were obliged to serve and attend him in his courts,
Uses
legal seisin of the land. See DOWER. (6) The cestui que use might have been impanelled on a jury, 2 Hen. 5, c. 3. (7) The feoffee to uses, being complete owner of the land at law, … for treason or felony. In fact, he was treated at Common Law as the absolute tenant of the fee. (8) A use, being but the creature of equity, could not have been taken in execution for the
Conversion, equitable
elect will be sufficient [Re Lewis, (1885) 30 Ch D 656]. Thus, when a person entitled to the fee simple of an estate to be purchased with trust money causes some of the securities for the money … Wm. 4, c. 74, s. 71. But the beneficiary, or all the beneficiaries together, provided they are sui juris and unanimous, may elect to take the property in its existing shape before the actual conversion has taken
charge
an authoritative instruction or command ;esp : instruction in points of law given by a judge to a jury [conviction…reversed, because of trial court's "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 3 a : an incurred … debts to the estate] [charging the loss against earnings] 4 a : to fix or ask as a fee or payment [ $4 for parking] b : to ask payment of (an individual or organization) [ a
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