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metes and bounds

metes and bounds [translation of Anglo-French metes et boundes] : the boundaries or limits of a tract of land esp. as described by reference to lines and distances between points on the land ...

Dower [fr. dos, dotis, Lat., a marriage gift; dotare dower, Fr., endow, to furnish with a marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a dowry of marriage provision; douairiere, a widow in possession of her portion, a dowager], the right which a wife has in the third part of the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty by metes and bounds, for her life, whether she have issue by her husband or not, and of what age soever she may be at her husband's decease, provided she be past the age of nine years.The legal estate in dower (being an estate for life) has been abolished and converted into an equitable interest (ibid.), (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1; it can only arise in respect of deaths after 1925 in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before...

Assignment of dower

Assignment of dower, the ascertaining and setting out by metes and bounds of a widow's portion of her deceased husband's realty for her thirds or dower. As to the rights of the widow until 1926, see Williams v. Thomas, (1909) 1 Ch 713, and as to the widow's rights where dower has been assigned by metes and bounds, see (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, ss. 1(1)(3) and 19(1). Dower in respect of the real estate of persons dying after 1925 has been abolished, see s. 45 of the (English) A. E. Act, 1925. See DOWER....

Partition

Partition, is mitakshara 'partition' may be only severance of the joint status of the members of the coparcenary, that it to say, what was once a joint title has become a divided title though there has been no division of any properties by metes and bounds, Nani Bali v. Gita Bai Kom Rama Gunge, AIR 1958 SC 706. See also Jalaja Shethi v. Lakshmi Jalaja Shethi, AIR 1973 SC 2658.Includes both division of states as well as division of meats and bounds, Sundara v. Girija, AIR 1962 Mys 72.Is the determination of shares of the coparceners in the joint family. Actual division of the property by metes and bounds is not necessary to constitute partition, Girija Nandi Devi v. Bijendra Narain Chowdhary, AIR 1967 SC 1124: (1967) 4 SCD 501.Partition, signifies a surrender of a portion of the joint rights in exchange for a similar right from the co-sharer, Rasa v. Arunachala, AIR 1932 Mad 577.Partition, the act of dividing.Before 1926 all co-owners of land might make partition, and coparceners were c...

bound

bound 1 : boundary usually used in pl. [metes and s] 2 : something that limits or restrains [within the s of the law] past and past part of bind vt : to form the boundary of or enclose [property ed on the north by a stone wall] adj : placed under a legal or moral restraint or obligation ...

Bemete

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I

I the ninth letter of the English alphabet takes its form from the Phoelignician through the Latin and the Greek The Phoelignician letter was probably of Egyptian origin Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I or long e as in mete Etymologically I is most closely related to e y j g as in dint dent beverage L bibere E kin AS cynn E thin AS thornynne E dominion donjon dungeon...

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