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Copyhold
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 estate for years … 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles.
Sufferance, Tenancy at
us (in 2 Inst. 134) this diversity is to be observed, that where a man cometh to a particular estate by the act of the party, there, if he hold over, he is a tenant at sufferance; … a mere possession only it arises when a person after his right to the occupation, under a lawful title, is at an end, continues (having no title at all) in possession of the land, without the agreement
Ratification
act as agent for B., either having no authority at all or having no authority to do that particular act, the subsequent adoption by B. of A.'s act has the same legal consequences as if B. had … of law as in the case of persons such as trustees in bankruptcy or personal repre-sentatives who acquire title by relation, Kelner v. Baxter, LR 2 CP 174; and see also NOTICE TO QUIT. Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur
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Uberrima fides
(most abundant good faith). Contracts said to require uberrima fides are those entered into between persons in a particular relationship, as guardian and ward, solicitor and client, insurer and insured [as to which last, see London Assurance … in every respect uberrim' fidei, but see s. 183 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, and that title.
property
property pl: -ties [Anglo-French propreté proprieté, from Latin proprietat- proprietas, from proprius own, particular] 1 : something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, … left in an unknown location involuntarily but through no one's fault NOTE: The finder of lost property has title to the property against all the world except the true owner. marital property : property acquired by either
Hire
rights of the hirer are that he acquires that right of possession only of the thing for the particular period or purpose stipulated (but he acquires no property in it); and that he also acquires the exclusive … of the bailment; to do no act that shall deprive the hirer of the thing; to warrant the title and right of possession to the hirer, in order to enable him to use the thing, or to
Homicide
Where an officer of justice, or other person acting in his aid, in the legal exercise of a particular duty, kills a person who resists or prevents him from executing it. (g) Where it is committed in … of two kinds:- (a) Killing oneself. See SUICIDE. (b) Killing another, which is either-- 1) Murder (see that title); or (2) Manslaughter (see that title); and this is either-- (a) Voluntary, where a man doing an unlawful
Justices
them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without their presence, … and maintenance of reformatory and industrial schools, etc., is transferred from the justices to county councils (see that title) by s. 3 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), as amended
Emphyteusis
the ager vectigalis and that of emphyteusis, were united under the common name of emphyteusis, and subjected to particular regulation. Both lands and buildings could be subjected to emphyteusis (Nov. vii. 3, 1, 2). The emphyteuta, as … he actually benefited by his emphyteusis or not, because the payment of rent was an acknowledgment of the title of the dominus. He was also bound to use the thing over which his right extended, so that
Executor
1 Ch 162). See DEVASTAVIT. (2) By operation of law by virtue of his office he takes a title to the personal property of the testator which vests him with full power ovr the testator's chattels, Attenborough … if necessary, a local newspaper, for debtors to pay their debts, and for claimants to send in the particulars of their claims to a named person within the time (not being as a rule less than two
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