Kin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: kinkin
kin : one's relatives kin·ship [-ship] n ...
Kin-bote
Kin-bote, compensation for the murder of a kins-man, Old Saxon Law....
next of kin
next of kin 1 : one or more living persons in the nearest degree of relationship to a particular individual 2 : those persons entitled by statute to receive the property in an intestate's estate compare heir ...
Kin or Kindred
Kin or Kindred [fr. cynren, Sax.], relation by blood.There are two degrees of kindred: the one in the lineal or direct line ascending or descending, and the other in the collateral or indirect line.The right of representation of kindred for the purposes of distribution of personalty, in the descending line, reaches beyond the great-grandchildren of the same parents; but in the collateral line it was not allowed to reach beyond brothers' and sisters' children under the Statutes of Distribution, but now the right is conferred on the issue of any person entitled to succession upon intestacy of person dying after 1925 (except parents or grand-parents) under the (English) Statutory Trusts, s. 47, (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925....
Next of kin
Next of kin. A person, or set or persons, standing nearest in blood relationship to another person. see DISTRIBUTION, STATUTES OF. [Plaint 43, Para 1, C.P.C.] [s. 1, Indian Soldier's Litigation Act and ss. 54(d) and 93, Indian Succession Act]...
Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a.Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing s. 91 of the Court of Probate Act, 1857:-There shall, under the control and direction of the High Court, be provided safe and convenient depositories for the custody of the wills of living persons, and any person may deposit his will therein.And see (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 26), s. 11, as to deposit of wills under control of the High Court.Law before 1838.-The right of testamentary aliena-tion of lands is a matter depending on Act of Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a will could not be made of land, and before the Statute of Frauds a will (see NUNCUPATIVE WILL) could be made by word of mouth...
Creditor
Creditor [Lat.], one who trusts or gives credit, correlative to debtor. A creditor is entitled totake out letters of administration if there be no next of kin, or the next of kin will not. And see BANKRUPTCY, ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS, and COMPANY.(ii) includes a decree-holder, 'debt' includes a judg-ment-debt, and 'debtor' includes a judgement-debtor. [Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920, s. 2 (1) (a)]In relation to a bankrupt, means a person to whom any of the bankruptcy debts is owed, being, in the case of an amount falling within the Insolvency Act, 1986, s. 382(1) (c) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), para 84, p. 52.Includes all creditors who may assent to, or take the benefit of, a deed of arrangement Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1914, s. 30(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), para 830, p. 444....
Distribution, Statute of
Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal estate (except of femes covert, the administration and enjoyment of whose estates belonged, at Common Law, to their husbands-but see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY) shall, after the expiration of one year from the death of the intestate, be distributed in the following manner: one-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal representative subsisting ,then a moiety shall go to the widow, and a moiety to the next of kindred in equal degree, and their representatives; if no widow, the whole shall go to the children; if neither widow nor children, the whole shall be di...
devisee
devisee : one to whom a devise of property is made compare heir, legatee, next of kin ...
heir
heir : one who inherits or is entitled to succeed to the possession of property after the death of its owner: as a : one who by operation of law inherits the property and esp. the real property of a person who dies without leaving a valid will used in jurisdictions whose law is based on English common law called also heir at law heir general legal heir compare issue b in the civil law of Louisiana : one who succeeds to the estate of a person by will or esp. by operation of law see also intestacy, unworthy compare ancestor, devisee, legatee, next of kin, successor apparent heir : heir apparent in this entry beneficiary heir in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who exercises the benefit of inventory which limits the amount of his or her liability for the decedent's debts bod·i·ly heir : heir of the body in this entry forced heir : an heir who cannot be disinherited except for causes recognized by law ;esp in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who because of yo...
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