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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

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Estate

its most important division is into real estate and personal estate, although the consequences of that division have lost much of their importance since 1925, when a new system of conveyancing was introduced by the Real Property

Trustee

Trustee, is the legal owner of the property the actual owner thereof having lost title thereto by the creation of a trust. The equitable ownership in the trust property vests in the

Prescription

of use and time allowed by the law.) Every species of prescription, by which property is acquired or lost, is founded on the presumption that he who has had a quiet and uninterrupted possession of anything for

Stolen goods

s. 24. S. 102, Larceny Act, 1861, prohibits advertising a reward for the return of any property either lost or stolen and intimating that no questions will be asked without apprehension of the person returning the property,

abandonment

never to resume use d : the act of an insured in surrendering all rights to damaged or lost property to an insurer as a total loss compare salvage e : relinquishment by a trustee in bankruptcy of

Reward

chapel in 1888, steadily refused to do so. Advertising a reward for the return of property stolen or lost with the use of words 'purporting that no questions will be asked,' etc., or publishing any advertisement to

Mutuum

or any other thing which is not intended to be returned, but only an equivalent in kind, is lost or destroyed by accident, it is the loss of the borrower; for it is his property, and he

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