Personal Chattels - Law Dictionary Search Results
Copyhold
is sometimes the best chattel, as a jewel or a piece of plate, but it must be a personal chattel. Heriots are in some manors commuted to a customary composition in money, but it must be an … 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 in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devolves upon
Fixtures
soil, they are not fixtures at all, and may be removed at will, like any other species of personal property. When the chattel is connected with the free-hold, by being let into the earth, or by being … legal principle, however, is not uniform, as may be thus shown: (1) Between landlord and tenant. If the chattels be not let into the soil, they are not fixtures at all, and may be removed at will,
Bill of sale
Bill of sale, an assignment by deed of chattels personal, whether absolute or by way of security. See Twyne's case, (1602) 3 Rep. 80 [44 Eliz.], and 1
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Trust
the relation or operation of resulting, implied or constructive trusts, and does not include declarations of trust affecting chattels personal, which may be created by parol, provided they are to take effect during the life of their … benefit of another (hence called the cestui que trust, or beneficiary), not, however, issuing out of real or personal property, but as a collateral incident accompanying it, annexed in privity to (i.e., commensurate with) the interest in
Conversion and detinue
possession of it. If a carrier or other bailee wrongfully and mistakenly delivers the chattel to the wrong person or refuses to deliver it to the right person, he can be sued as for a conversion. The … Conversion and detinue, a conversion is an act of wilful interference, without lawful justification, with any chattel in a manner inconsistent with the right of another, whereby that other is deprived of the use and
False pretence, obtaining property
a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 32:- Every person who, by any false pretence: (1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money … Every person who, by any false pretence: (1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid or any chattel or valuable
Trespass
appropriate remedy was a writ of trespass - viz. any direct and forcible injury to person, land, or chattels, (3) the third and narrowest meaning of the term is that in which, in accordance with popular speech, … transgression of the law, less than treason, felony, or misprision of either. An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another esp. wrongful entry on another's real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The action
Infant
provisions relating to maintenance and accumula-tion of income are to apply, and infants may be permitted to use personal chattels which form part of the estate. The 5th s. of the (English) Betting and Loans (Infants) Act, 1892
Transfer
14 of the Companies Clauses Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16). As to the transfer of chattels, see SALE OF GOODS ACT; GIFT; Goodeve on Personal Property. It includes sale, purchase, exchange, mortgage, pledge, gift, … the Companies Act, 1929, s. 62, shares or other interest of any member in a company shall be personal estate transferable in manner provided by the Articles of the company, and under s. 63 (ibid.), a transfer
Representation
but this involves the question whether the misrepresentation is innocent. If made at the time of sale of personal chattels, 'it is a warranty' (or collateral contract), 'provided it appears to have been so intended', Pasley v. Freeman
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