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Locksmith

A person whose occupation is to make mend or install locks or to make keys for locks

Claves insul'

Claves insul', the keys of the Isle of Man, or twelve persons to whom all ambiguous and weighty cases are referred, Cum. … Claves insul', the keys of the Isle of Man, or twelve persons to whom all ambiguous and weighty cases are referred, Cum. Law Dict.

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Induction

for him. The person who inducts takes the hand of the clerk, and lays it on the ring, key, or latch of the church-door, or wall of the church, or delivers a clod, turf, or twig of

beneficiary

beneficiary pl: -ries : a person or entity (as a charity or estate) that receives a benefit from something: as a : the person

Deed

frequently become material as an aid to collect the intention of the parties to the instrument, and a key to its construction. Thus a recital may restrain the effects of general phraseology in the operative part of … s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two

Pawn or Pledge

or circumstances which, in construction of law, are deemed sufficient to pass the possession of property, as the key of a warehouse. As possession is necessary to complete the title, so by the Common Law the title … relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or

Portion

and see also in the 1st Schedule, Form 3, which is an optional statutory form of settlement. See Key and Elphinstone, Notes to Real Settlements. Settlements of portions usually contain a provision for hotchpot and maintenance of … property settled or provided in favour of children or their issue. In settlements by deed or will of personal property, portions were and are usually effected by direct trusts in favour of the children or issue, either

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