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immobilisation

The act or process of limiting movement or making incapable of movement as immobilization of the injured knee was necessary the storm caused complete

Definition

The act of defining determination of the limits as a telescope accurate in definition

birth control

the act or process of deliberately limiting the number of ones children born especially by preventing conception

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Limitation of actions and prosecutions

particular interests (in remainder, reversion or other future estate or interest) the right to recover land etc., is limited to six years from the time when the estate shall have vested in possession or twelve yeas from … Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation

Partnership

Court has jurisdiction if the assets do not exceed 500l. [(English) County Courts Act, 1934, s. 52 (f)] Limited Partnership.--The (English) Limited Partner-ships Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 24), purposes to put the law relating limited

Company

the registrar shall certify under his hand that the company is incorporated and, in the case of a limited company, that the company is limited. (2) From the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificate of incorporation, … (1) in a charter, as the Bank of England and many insurance companies; or (2) in a special Act of Parliament, with which, as authorizing an undertaking of a public nature such as a railway, the Companies

Remainder

remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate, is at the same time limited over to another, who is to enjoy it after the determination of such particular estate. After 1925 remainders … has been retained as relating to titles to land existing before 1926, and see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4, as to the construction of equitable interests. A remainder may be limited in all freehold

Trust

give, having regard as a rule to the technical terms of the Common or Statutory Law in the limitations of legal estate. Before 1926 an equitable entail would in the case of an executory document or a … and (2) temporary, when there is one particular duty only to perform. Again, trusts may be passive or active. A trust being, in contemplation of equity, the substantial ownership of or control over property, the person having

Tail

created after that date. An estate-tail, or more accurately now, an equitable interest in tail, is an estate limited to a person and the heirs of his body general or special, male or female, and was the … taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)] The limitation of an estate so that it can

Settled land

of instruments, under which any land, or any estate or interest in land, 'stands for the time being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession' (Settled Land Act, 1882, s. 2) (see

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