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Tail
[s. 130 (4) (ibid.)] The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466. An estate-tail in land now … either at law or inequity, any contract made by his ancestor as tenant-in-tail, since he claims from the original grantor, and not from his immediate ancestor. If, however, he do any act towards completing such a contract,
Crown Office
Crown Office, a department originally belonging to the Court of King's Bench. The Act (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20) abolished the clerks … attorneys of the then Court of Queen's Bench; it also abolished several ancient offices and many burthen some fees,and made the office subject to the direct control of the Lord Chief Justice. Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 104
patent
asexually reproduced distinct and new variety of plant (excluding one propagated from a tuber), and for any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. Design patents are issued for a term of 14 years. … the date of application. An inventor can file a provisional patent application, which requires less documentation and lower fees than a regular application, before reducing the invention to practice. This allows the inventor to claim “patent pending”
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Copyhold
edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of … the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an
Merger
rule; for a man may have in his own right both an estate tail and a reversion in fee; and the estate tail, though a less estate, will not merge in the fee, 2 Bl. Com. 177. … vested estate or contingent remainder created in the same instant of time and by the same means which originated the other estate; and the determination or acquisition of an intermediate estate may be the cause of merger,
Contingent remainder
and has been supplanted by the modern doctrine of an estate owner with power to alienate the entire fee simple or term of years in the property. 2. An estate cannot be given to an unborn person … the contingent remainder vests, be capable of taking effect in all respects as if the contingent remainder had originally been created as a springing or shifting use or executory devise or other executory limitation. Contingent remainders are
Shelley's case, Rule in
and a remainder in his heirs. In the absence of the rule, the heir would have taken an original and independent estate by purchase, not derived from or controllable by his ancestor; but the operation of the … abeyance; that is to say, where the inheritance is to his heirs or right heirs he takes the fee-simple; and where it is to the heirs of his body an estate-tail general, 1 Steph. Com. In Coke's
Power of Attorney
to execute deeds on its behalf outside the United Kingdom. It includes any instrument (not chargeable with a fee under the law relating to court-fees for the time being in force) empowering a specified person to act … has had no notice of revocation, may be conclusive. As to filing at the Central Office of the original power of attorney if it relates to unregistered land and the obtaining of office copies and the searching
Uses
for treason or felony. In fact, he was treated at Common Law as the absolute tenant of the fee. (8) A use, being but the creature of equity, could not have been taken in execution for the … assigns, it was resolved that, as C. was not named in the premises, he could take no possession originally by the habendum; and that the livery, made according to the intent of the indenture, did not give
Abstract of title
SHARES; EQUITABLE INTERESTS, BANKRUPTCY and VESTING ORDERS. Abstracts on behalf of vendors who are absolute owners entitled in fee simple in possession are not exceptionally affected by legislation under these heads except so far as conveyances after … otherwise), and delivers it to the solicitor of the proposed purchaser or mortgagee, who compares it with the original title-deeds, and makes requisitions (when necessary), in order to ascertain any important but undisclosed facts, to remedy any
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