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Assent of personal representatives

Assent of personal representatives, At Common Law the personal estate passing by the will of a deceased person, including chattels real vested in the executor, virtute officii. The property

Motor Car

not being a motor cycle or an invalid carriage, which is constructed itself to carry a load or passengers and of which the weight unlades: (1) if it is constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and

Bank-book

a bank for a customer, showing the state of his account with it; otherwise termed a 'Pass-book.' A pass-book passing to and from between the bank and a customer is evidence of a stated and settled account,

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Real representative

not disposed of by will does not devolve upon them, nor does the interest in a joint estate passing by survivorship or the interest of a corporation sole. The trustees of settled land vested in the testator

Quare obstruxit

Quare obstruxit, a writ which lay for him who, having a liberty to pass through his neighbour's ground, could not enjoy his right because the owner had obstructed it, Fleta, 1. 4,

Passenger

Passenger, 'passenger' any person on a railway in any description or class of traveling train or carriage on payment

Trust

in succession: and (2) temporary, when there is one particular duty only to perform. Again, trusts may be passive or active. A trust being, in contemplation of equity, the substantial ownership of or control over property, the

Money land

to the curtesy of the husband, and (under the Dower Act) the dower of the wife; 3rdly, to pass as land by will, if subject to the real use at the time the will was made; 4thly,

Land

also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus

Fee-simple

the Act were required, for a conveyance 'in fee' without the addition of the word 'simple' will not pass the estate [Re Ethel, (1901) 1 Ch 945). Even in conveying an equitable fee-simple, words of limitation were

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