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legal age

Matched in: Term legal age

lawful age

Matched in: Term lawful age

Settled land

representative selling in course of administration or to persons of full age absolutely entitled to deal with the legal estate free from the settlement. The direction of investment lies with the tenant for life and the investments

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Bastard

may be made affecting such child. See ADOPTION. A person born in wedlock maybe declared a bastard by legal sentence if it be proved that the husband of the mother had no access and no opportunity of … Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not

Full age

Matched in: Term Full age

Minor

Minor, a person under twenty-one years of age. There is no legal distinction between a minor in this sense and an infant. See INFANT. Strictly speaking, in Scotland a minor

Springing use

grant by X. To B. to the use of A. (an infant) in fee attaining twenty-one years of age, the use results to the settlor until, if ever, the period arrives and a good legal estate was … directing property inland to vest at a future period which does not coincide with the termination of a legal estate at common law, for instance. In conveyances before 1926, upon a grant by X. To B. to

Coparceners or parceners

to a severalty; and (4) By a compulsory partition or sale under the Partition Acts. See PARTITION. The legal estate in coparcenary was abolished by the (English) L.P. Act,1925, s. 1, the entirety of the legal estate … third person to divide the estate, and after a division by him, each coparcener, according to seniority of age, or as should be agreed between them, selected her own portion. The privilege of seniority was in this

age of majority

Matched in: Term age of majority

Uses

legal estate authorized by the L.P. Act which may be required) be conveyed to a person of full age upon the requisite trusts; and see ss. 130 to 132 of the same Act; also s. 65 (reservations … jurisdiction over the property, found a way to make an appeal to the conscience of the apparent or legal owner, backed by its irresistible sanctions. The person enjoying the beneficial right was called the cestui que use,

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