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passim

passim [Latin, here and there] : in one place and another used in citations of cases, articles, or books to indicate that something (as a word, phrase, or idea) is found at many places in the work cited [see Arango, 621 F.2d 1371 passim] ...


Passim

Passim, occurring in various places in a statute, book or works of a certain author-e.g., 'see (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, passim.'...


Passim

Here and there everywhere as this word occurs passim in the poem...


Feudal system

Feudal system, the system of land tenure which William the Conqueror introduced into this country, thereby displacing the Saxon laws of property, and which was the chief civil institution of the Middle Ages. The system as introduced here, however, differed in some very important respects from that which prevailed abroad. See FEOD and TENURE, and Craig de Feudis, passim. The main incidents of the feudal system were not expressly abolished in England until 12 Car. 2, c. 24. See Hall, Mid. Ages....


Vesting Order

Vesting Order. The Court of Chancery had, and the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice now has, the power of making orders passing the legal estate in property without a conveyance. Also commissioners appointed by several modern statutes have power, by vesting order, to transfer legal estates without the necessity of a deed of transfer, e.g., Charity Commissioners, or Board of Education.Vesting Orders may be made under the Law of Property Act, 1925, see s. 9 and passim; Trustee Act, 1925, ss. 44 et seq.; Settled Land Act, 1925, ss. 12 and 16; Administration of Estates act, 1925, ss. 38 and 43. As to Vesting Orders in Lunacy, see Lunacy Act, 1890, ss. 135-140; and Trustee Act, 1925, s. 54. Consult Seton on Judgments; Dan. Ch. Pr....


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