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Verification

an authorised officer, such as notary public, by which one saviors to trust of statements in document, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1556.

Pedigree

Pedigree [fr. per and degre, Fr.-Skinner], genealogy; lineage; account of descent. Falsifying a pedigree, upon which title does or may depend, is punishable under the (English) … Pedigree [fr. per and degre, Fr.-Skinner], genealogy; lineage; account of descent. Falsifying a pedigree, upon which title does or

Payable

invoice with any ulterior motives. The foreign buyer cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be held to be liable to pay any amount over and above the price which he has promised to pay for the goods … Payable, 'payable' generally means that which should be paid, New Delhi Municipal Committee v. Kalu Ram, AIR 1976 SC

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Particular tenants, Alienation by

Particular tenants, Alienation by, when they con-veyed by a feoffment, fine, or recovery, a greater estate that the law entitled them to make a forfeiture ensued to the person in immediate remainder or reversion. As if a … Particular tenants, Alienation by, when they con-veyed by a feoffment, fine, or recovery, a greater estate that the law

Notice

charity), sell to another, who has no notice, and is a bona fide purchaser for valuable consideration, the latter may protect his title, although it was affected with the equity arising from notice in the hands of … Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1) statutory; (2) actual, which brings the

Lives

Lives, Estate for. A lease to A. during the life of another or the lives of others was a … lease for 90 years determinable by notice after any event determining the term under the original demise as provided by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 149, if the lease is at a rent or

Liability

he has intention to make himself personally liable, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. L, p. 112. The term 'liability' is of large and comprehensive signification, and when construed in its usual and ordinary

Frank-marriage

Frank-marriage [in libero maritagio, Lat.], a species of entailed estates, now grown out of use, but still capable of subsisting. When … vi termini, both creates and limits an inheritance, not only supplying words of descent, but also terms of procreation. The donees are liable to no service except fealty, and a reserved rent would be void until the

Surrender

operative verbs being 'surrender and yield up.' The term is usually applied to the giving up of a lease before the expiration of it: it generally means the giving up of a lesser estate to a greater; … up of a greater to a less interest, enlarging the latter. The effect of a surrender is to pass and merge the estate of the surrender or to, and into, that of the surrenderee. By the combined

Executory devise

Executory devise. Mr. Fearne (Cont. Rem. 386) defines an executory devise to be, strictly, such a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it … a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is more properly an executory bequest) as the law admits in the case of a will, though

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