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Reconversion
imaginary process by which an earlier constructive conversion-meaning a change of personal into real property or real into personal property is annulled and taken away; and converted property restored to its originals quality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,
Chattels or catals
distinction in the class of chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the … of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b. Chattels personal or in a more narrow and more modern sense, 'chattels' (cf. 'goods and chattels' in the writ of
Cheating
Cheating, Cheating is defined as whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person or to consent
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Inheritance
representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of the owner dying intestate. These rules have been abolished in the … the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833. (10) Inheritance is in some sort a legal and fictitious continuation of the personality of the dead man, for the representation is in some sort identified by the law with him who
Settled land
paid must not be less than two, or a trust corporation, but this does not apply to a personal representative selling in course of administration or to persons of full age absolutely entitled to deal with the … far as relates to equitable interests affecting the estate and subject to the provisions of the Law of Property and other land legislation of 1925, except that in some cases, notably a first vesting instrument in connec-tion
Adverse possession
possession is that form of possession or occupancy of land which is inconsistent with the title of any person to whom the land rightfully belongs and tends to extinguish that person's title, see (English) Real Property Limitation
Transfer of property
Matched in: Term Transfer of property
Priority
97]. If the mortgage is by trustees for sale, or a tenant for life as estate owner, or personal representatives or other persons referred to in the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 2, and is
succession
succession 1 a : the order in which or the conditions under which one person after another succeeds to a property, dignity, position, title, or throne [the sequence of to the presidency] b
Uses
new trustees jointly, thereby making two conveyances necess-ary. Indeed, in the case of terms for years, and other personal property, two assignments ere required for this purpose, until 22 & 23 Vict. c. 35, s. 21; and by
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