Personal Chattels - Law Dictionary Search Results
Widow
intestate leaves a husband or wife (with or without issue) the surviving husband or wife shall take the personal chattels (q.v.) absolutely and in addition the residuary estate of the intestate shall stand charged with the payment of … accumulation of income and hotchpot (q.v.) are to apply and the personal representatives may allow infants to use personal chattels. If the intestate leaves no issue surviving him or her and attaining a vested interest, then subject to
Executory devise
a limitation of a future estate or interest in lands or chattels (though, in the case of chattels personal, it is more properly an executory bequest) as the law admits in the case of a will, though
Distress
distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for … 1936, s. 16]. If a tenant, aftr his rent is in arrear, fradulently or clandestinely remove his own chattels off the premises, and does not leave thereon sufficient to meet the arrears, Tomlinson v. Consolidated Credit Corporation,
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Pawnbroker
the owner of property pledged against his will. As to the power of an executor to pledge the personal chattels of his testator, see Solomon v. Attenborough, 1913 AC 76. A trustee in bankruptcy may inspect goods pawned
Real representative
time on the personal representative of the deceased in like manner as before the commence-ment of this Act, chattels real devolved on the personal representative from time to time of the deceased person. (2) The personal representatives … Real representative. The name formerly given to a personal representative on whom real estate devolved on the death of any person between the 31st December, 1897, and
Personal property
Matched in: Term Personal property
Assent of personal representatives
Matched in: Term Assent of personal representatives
Remainder
of equitable interests. A remainder may be limited in all freehold estates, but not strictly and technically in chattels real and personal, although these may be limited over after a previous limitation or a partial interest in … remainders can operate only as equitable interests, and in that manner they can be created in respect of personality as well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to
Title to lands, Documents of
Title to lands, Documents of. As to dealing with title-deeds as mere personal chattels, see Swanley Coal Co. v. Denton, (1906) 2 KB 873. Properly speak-ing, however, they are not chattels; Coke
Shares in public undertakings
surplus profit derived from the employment of the capital, which is a mixed fund, consisting in part of personal chattels, as well as lands and fixtures. Shares in all companies which are within the Companies Acts (see the
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