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Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General

Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General; the duties of Paymaster-General transferred to Accountant-General: see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 133 et seq.)....

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The marriage knot

Tail

Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest...

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Joint-tenancy

Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the...

Law

Law [fr. lage, lagea, or lah, Sax.; loi, Fr.; legge, Ital.; lex, fr. ligo, Lat., to bind], a rule of...

Settled land

Settled land. For the purposes of the (English) Settled Land Acts, 1882-1890, 'settled land' meant land, and any estate and...

Specific performance

Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces,...

Escheat

Escheat [eschet or echet, formed from the word eschoir or echoir, Fr., to happen], a species of reversion; it is...

Executor

Executor. A person appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose...

Sessions of the peace

Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to...

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