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Settled land
concurrence of the parties interested, to direct sales and leases of settled estates, and also enabled tenants for life, without application to any court, to make certain leases binding on the parties in remainder. The Settled Estates … s. 4 (1), it is provided that 'Every settlement of a legal estate in land inter vivos shall, save as in this Act otherwise provided, be effected by two deeds, namely, a vesting deed and a trust
Necessaries
Roberts v. Gray, (1913)1 KB 520; and INFANT. Where 'necessaries,' that is, goods suitable to the condition in life' of an infant, 'and to his actual requirements at the time of the sale and delivery,' 'are sold … cases of infants' contracts, Kennedy v. Horden Collieries Ltd., (1925) 2 KB 438. It does not, however, include savings, Welsh Navigation Steam Coal Co. Ltd. v. Evans, 1927 AC 834. The term 'necessary' means what is indispensable,
Tail
the trusts to affect the property are sufficiently declared. Subject to his powers and duties as tenant for life under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, if a tenant-in-tail grant the fee-simple in the property to another … and successors, whose estates are to take effect after the determination, or in defeasance of any such estate-tail; saving always the right of all persons in respect of estates prior to the estate-tail in respect of which
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Rent
term of years absolute (see LEASE) they are legal estates. All other rent-charges and rents, such as for life or remainder, etc., have become equitable estates [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1 (8)], but see s. 149, … demand of it, to take advantage of a condition of re-entry or to tender it, in order to save a forfeiture; but, more properly speaking, the demand should be made before sunset, so as to allow sufficient
Accumulation
property, in such manner that the income thereof shall be accumulated for any longer term than-- (1) The life of the grantor or settlor; (2) 21 years from the death of the grantor or settlor, or testator;
Electoral franchise
man of full age who was-(i) the owner of lands or tenements, of whatever tenure, for his own life, for the life of another or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate, if of not … by the potwallers (q.v.), and in others these different qualifications, or some of them, were combined. With certain savings as to corporate towns, the (English) Reform Act, 1832, established a universal 10l. household suffrage for adult males.
Married women's property
born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law. (2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the … c. 50), enacted (inter alia) that the earnings of a married woman, and also her deposits in a savings bank, should be deemed her separate property; that a married woman might procure investments in the funds or
Lease
leapum, or leasum, Sax., to enter lawfully], sometimes also called demise (demissio), is a grant of property for life, or years, or from year to year or at will, by one who has greater interest in the … the prohibition, and a further exception to the rule is made by sub-s. (5) of s. 149, which saves legal terms taking effect in reversion expectant on a larger term. The (English) Law of Property Act, 1925,
Justifiable homicide
various kinds:- (1) The due execution of public justice, inputting a malefactor to death who has forfeited his life by the laws of his country. (2) It may be committed for the advancement of public justice, as … unaccompanied by force. If two shipwrecked persons get on the same plank, but finding it not able to save them both, one of them thrusts the other from it, whereby he is drowned, this is said by
trust
trust in which individuals are named as beneficiaries to receive income for a period of time (as the lifetimes of the beneficiaries) after which the principal passes to charity NOTE: Charitable remainder trusts qualify for tax exemptions … in this entry revocable trust : a trust over which the settlor has retained the power of revocation savings bank trust : totten trust in this entry shelter trust : bypass trust in this entry simple trust
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