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One of two equal parts a half as a moiety of an estate of goods or of profits the moiety of a jury or of a nation...
Moiety
Moiety [fr. medietas, Lat. through moitie Fr.], half.Moiety, 1. A half of something (such as an estate). 2. A portion less than half; a small segment. 3. In customs law, a payment made to an informant who assists in the seizure of contraband, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1021...
moiety
moiety pl: -ties : half of something (as an estate) [an interest exceeding a ] compare entirety ...
Party-wall
Party-wall, a term which has been used indifferent senses, may mean (1) a wall of which the two adjoining owners are tenants in common: (2) a wall divided longitudinally into two strips, one belonging to each of the neighbouring owners: (3) a wall which belongs entirely to one of the adjoining owners, but is subject to an easement or right in the other to have it maintained as a dividing wall between the two tenements: (4) a wall divided longitudinally into two moieties, each moiety being subject to a cross easement in favour of the owner of the other moiety, Watson v. Gray, (1880) 14 Ch D 192.The common use of a wall separating adjoining lands of different owners is prima facie evidence that the wall and the land on which it stands belongs to the owners of those adjoining lands, in equal moieties, as tenants in common, or would so belong if tenancy in undivided shares in a legal estate had not been done away with by the land legislation of 1925. Now under s. 38, and 1st Sch., Part 5, ...
Coparceners or parceners
Coparceners or parceners. The name given to persons who until 1926 inherited an inheritable estate by virtue of descents from the ancestor which conferred on them all an equal title to it. It arose by act of law only, i.e., by descent, which, in relation to this subject was of two kinds:-(1) Descent by the common law, which took place where an ancestor died intestate, leaving two or more females as his co-heiresses; these, according to the canon of real property inheritance, all took together as coparceners or parceners, the law of primogeniture not obtaining among women in equal relationship to their ancestor: they were, however, deemed to be one heir; and (2) descent by particular custom, as in the case of gavelkind lands, which descended to all the males in equal degree, as the sons, brothers, or uncles of the deceased intestate ancestor; in default of sons, they descended to all the daughters equally.Coparceners had a unity though not an entirety, or necessarily an equality, of int...
Distribution, Statute of
Distribution, Statute of (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10), now only applied to intestacies prior to 1926, repealed by (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 (see WIDOW), explained by the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, enacts that the surplusage of intestates' personal estate (except of femes covert, the administration and enjoyment of whose estates belonged, at Common Law, to their husbands-but see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY) shall, after the expiration of one year from the death of the intestate, be distributed in the following manner: one-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if there be no children or legal representative subsisting ,then a moiety shall go to the widow, and a moiety to the next of kindred in equal degree, and their representatives; if no widow, the whole shall go to the children; if neither widow nor children, the whole shall be di...
Joint-tenancy
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
entirety
entirety pl: -ties 1 : the state of being entire or complete [in its ] 2 : an undivided whole ;specif : an interest in real property that cannot be divided compare moiety by the entirety also by the entireties : by a husband and wife with undivided interests in the whole estate and a right of survivorship [an estate held by the entireties] see also tenancy by the entirety at tenancy ...
lesion
lesion [Anglo-French, damage, injury, from Latin laesio, from laedere to injure] in the civil law of Louisiana : loss from failure to receive a threshold amount or value (as one-half market value) for immovable property conveyed or transferred by a commutative contract (as a sale or exchange) [a new partition may be demanded for the least "Louisiana Civil Code"] called also lesion beyond moiety compare unjust enrichment ...
Half
Consisting of a moiety or half as a half bushel a half hour a half dollar a half view...
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