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Indictment
the peace for commitment of the alleged offender to prison to await his trial at Assizes (see that title) or Quarter Sessions (see SESSIONS OF THE PEACE), or for his admission to bail (see that title), under … Indictments were of a highly technical character until simplified by the Indictments Act, 1915, which directs that the particulars of the offence shall be 'set out in ordinary language.' See also Indictments Procedure Rules, S.R. & O.,
Confirmation
a species of conveyance by which a voidable estate is made valid and unavoidable, or by which a particular estate is increased. Estates which are void cannot be confirmed, but only those which are voidable, Watkin's Conv. … Confirmation in Scotland is the ratification by a competent Court of an appointment of executors, and confers a title to uplift, administer, and dispose of the personal estate of the deceased. When the appointment of the executor
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854
the receiving, forwarding, and delivering their own traffic; (2) to abstain from giving an undue preference to any particular person or traffic; and (3) to forward traffic without delay in cases of continuous communication. The object of … further amended by the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1894 and 1912, and Railways Act, 1921. See last title.
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Uses
relating to the inheritable estates of intestates: and the special customs of gavelkind, borough-English, and copyholds, determined the particular descent of uses. This is an illustration of the well-known maxim, 'quitas sequitur legem. (2) They were devisable … an estate nor jus ad rem, i.e., a demand, and therefore he could bring no action, having neither title nor legal estate in the property. (5) Neither could a widow be endowed, nor could a husband have
Guarantee
series of transactions and is not exhausted by nor confined to a single credit or transaction. Whether any particular contractual promise is to be classified as a guarantee so as to attract all or any of the … obligations that do not fall within the narrow legal definition. Such usages fall outside the scope of this title, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 20, p. 56
Settled land
favour of the tenant for life upon his becoming entitled. The vesting deed constitutes the tenant for life's title to deal with the legal estate, and a purchaser for value from him under that title is not … s. 20, 1925, such as tenants in tail, tenants in fee-simple subject to executory limitations over, and more particularly to an estate owner of land subject to family charges, and a married woman subject to restraint upon
Tenancy in Common
from a joint-tenancy in this respect: joint-tenants have one estate in the whole, and no estate in any particular part; they have the power of alienation over their respective aliquot parts, and by exercising that power, may … que trust under a trust for sale of land. The following notes have been kept verbatim to explain titles as they existed immediately before 1926. This estate is created when several persons have several distinct estates, either
Coparceners or parceners
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 … 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
Information
the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection (such as the objects of a public charity), the matter of complaint was offered to the Court … c. 50), s. 33 (1), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices.' As to criminal, English, and Latin information, see those titles; also QUO WARRANTO; NUISANCE. Includes data, text, images, sound, voice, codes, computer programmes, software and data bases or
Vested remainder
estate, which is limited or transmitted to a person who is capable of receiving the possession, should the particular estate happen to determine: as a limitation to A. for life, remainder to B. and his heirs; here, … for life, but not with the remainder; the remainder is good, having been duly vested by a god title. See Fearne, C.R. 308; 1 Steph. Com. The person who is entitled to a vested remainder having a
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