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Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

SALE 'COMMONS; LEASES; LEGAL ESTATE; MORTGAGE; NOTICE; PERPETUITIES; and Wolst. And Ch. Conv. Statutes. Notwithstanding these changes, the old law of real property as it existed on the 31st December,1925, is still in force subject to express … simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or

Uses

grant. Upon this doctrine that there can be no use upon a use, equity interfered, and resuming her old dominion, treated C., the person having the second use, as the beneficiary, and compelled B., having the statute … was no process at Common Law but against legal estates. (9) A use, not being an object of tenure, was therefore exempt from the oppressive burdens of the feudal system. It was not forfeitable for treason or

Joint-tenancy

new trustees the estate vests anew in the new and continuing trustees. There is no accession to an old title. The same interest must be given to the parties, for one joint-tenant cannot have one estate in … 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

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