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Home Dictionary Name: munimentMuniment-house or muniment-rooms
Muniment-house or muniment-rooms, a house or room of strength, in cathedrals, collegiate churches, castles, colleges, public buildings, etc., purposely made for keeping deeds, charters, writings, etc., 3 Inst. 170....
muniment
muniment [Anglo-French, from Middle French, defense, from Latin munimentum, from munire to fortify] : a record (as a deed, statutory grant, or judgment) that passes title to real property and enables a person to defend the title or otherwise maintain a claim to real rights or privileges [ of title] often used in pl. [the s of which the chain of record title is formed "Connecticut General Statutes"] ...
Miniment or muniment
Miniment or muniment, the evidences or writings whereby a man is enabled to defend the title of his estate. It includes all manner of evidences....
Muniment
Muniment, support, defence, record; deed or writing up on which claims and rights are founded and depend; evidences, charters....
Muniment
The act of supporting or defending...
Abstract of title
Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...
Almaria
Almaria, the archives or muniments of a church or library, Blount...
Exeter, or Exon, Domesday
Exeter, or Exon, Domesday, the name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which contains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other surveys nearly contemporary, by order of the Commissioners of the Public Records, under the direction of Sir Henry Ellis, in a volume supplementary to the Great Domesday, folio, London, 1816....
Fines in copyholds
Fines in copyholds. A fine which is preserved by 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 6, is a sum of money payable by custom to the lord. There are three classes of fines:- (1) those due on the change of the lord; (2) those on the change of the tenant; and (3) those for a licence to the tenant to do certain acts.When the fine is due on the change of the lord, such change must be by the act of God, and not in consequence of any act of the party. It can therefore be only claimed on the death of the lord.When it is due on the change of the tenant, it matters not whether that change is effected by the act of God, or by the tenant's own act. Whenever the tenancy is changed, a fine is payable.Those fines which are due to licenses by the lord, to empower the tenant to do certain acts, as to demise, etc., are rare. There must be a special custom to support such fine, for, by general custom, fines are due only on admissions.The admission fine is prima facie uncertain and arbitrary, or rather arbitrable, unless...
Roll of Court
Roll of Court, the Court-roll in a manor, wherein the business of the Court, the admissions, surrenders, names, rents, and services of the tenants ae copied and enrolled. 'Copyhold lands are lands holden by copy of Court roll; that is, the muniments of the title are copies of the roll or book in which an account is kept of the proceedings in the Court of the manor to which the lands belong.'-Williams on Real Property. As to custody, an superintendence, of the Master of the Rolls, see COPYHOLD, and Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch....
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