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Septifragal

Breaking from the partitions said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions

Presentation

an estate of inheritance in the advowson of any church, or vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion, and a partition is made between them, to present by turns, every one shall be taken to be seised of his

Indivisum

Indivisum, that which is held in common without partition.

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Insurance

6d. per cent. per annum. (b) Hazardous insurances.--(1) Buildings of timber or plaster, or not wholly separated by partition-walls of brick or stone, or not covered with slates, etc., and thatched barns having no chimney, but in

Marumakkattayam law

the female line with equal rights in the property of the family. Under the customary Marumakkattayam law no partition of the family estate may be made, but items of the family property may by agreement be separately

Net wealth

has unity of possession but not unity of ownership on the property. In pursuance to a decree for partition each coparcener takes a defined share and that share is 'net wealth'.

Parage or Paragium

Parage or Paragium, an equality of blood or dignity; but more especially of land, in the partition of an inheritance between coheirs; more properly, however, an equality of condition among nobles, or persons holding by

Payment

1958 SC 518 (519): (1958) SCR 1504. (ii) 'Payment' implies gift of money by someone to another. A partition in a H.U.F. can be considered either as 'disposition' or 'conveyance' or 'assign-ment' or 'settlement' or 'delivery' or

Separate property

property of the coparcener and not the property which he has got on separation as coparcener at the partition of the joint family property, P.N. Ventakasubramania v. Eswara Iyear, AIR 1966 Mad 266.

Pro indiviso

lands or tenements belonging to two or more persons, whereof none knows his several portion; as coparceners before partition.

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