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Tail
case it passes to his personal representatives and is liable for his debts. (4) It might have been lost by escheat; by forfeiture for treason or felony (but such forfeiture is now abolished by the Forfeiture Act, … 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 person and his heirs without barring the entail, only a qualified
Mortgage
he not comply with such proviso, the legal estate becomes perfected in the mortgagee, i.e., indefeasible, and so lost at the Common Law to the mortgagor. Until the mortgage has been foreclosed, or unless the property has … retrospective. Before this Act, in the absence of a power of leasing, a valid lease could only be granted with the concurrence of both mortgagor and mortgagee, see Keech v. Hall, (1745) 1 Doug 21; 2 Sm.
Warranty
collateral agreement: see Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 11; and the right to repudiate may also be lost if the promisee has adopted the transaction, or the rights of the parties have been so altered as … to warrant and secure the bargainee and his heirs against all persons for the enjoying of the thing granted accompanied by a promise, express or implied, that if eviction should take place, the warrantor would substitute an
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Water and watercourse
Usages,' and Gateward's case, (1607) 6 Rep 59. So, also, a prescriptive right to a watercourse is not lost by unity of possession (see EASEMENT) because the right begins ex jure natur' and cannot be averted. See … land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable,
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