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Marriage settlement
made before marriage, and in consideration of it (the highest consideration known to the law), whereby real or personal property is settled for the benefit of the husband and wife and the issue of the marriage. There is
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Equitable estates and interests
words of limitation are still required for the creation of equitable interests in tail in either real or personal property. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 130] In regard to equitable interests in personal property, equity also followed the … in either real or personal property. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 130] In regard to equitable interests in personal property, equity also followed the law; the legal incidents fall upon the legal owner, who has a right of
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Gift
Act, 1925, ss. 41 and 42. BLACK'S Law DICTIONARY (Fourth Edition) defines gift thus: A voluntary transfer of personal property without consideration. A parting by owner with property without pecuniary consideration. A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer … Something that is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a voluntary transfer of real or personal property without any consideration or without a valuable consideration - distinguished from sale. Volume 18 of WORDS AND PHRASES
Alien
mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence … status of aliens is dealt with by ss. 17 & 18, which are as follows:-- 17. Real and personal property of every description maybe taken, acquired, held and disposed of by an alien in the same manner in
Replevin
a course of law, the Pocket Lawyer and Family Conveyancer 105, 3rd Edn., 1833. Replevin, lies, where specific personal property has been wrongfully taken and is wrongfully detained, to recover possession of the property together with damages for … 120 (Heneroy Wintrop Ballantine, 3rd Edn., 1923) by Benjamin J. Shipman. Means an action for the repossession of personal property wrongfully taken or detained by the defendant, whereby the plaintiff gives security for and holds the property until
Mortgage
Acts were repealed and reproduced in an amended form, to give effect to the assimilation of real and personal property by the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 35. This provision now relates to any property, whether
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 cemented … Larceny Act, 1916, s. 16. Consult Amos and Ferard on Fixtures; Goodeve on the Law of Real Property. Personal property that is attached to land or building and that is regarded as an irremovable part of real property,
Bailment
(2000) 7 SCC 264 (272): AIR 2000 SC 2912. (Contract Act, 1872, s. 148) Means a delivery of personal property by one person (the bailor) to another (the bailee) who holds the property for a certain purpose under … the property for a certain purpose under an express or implied-in-fact contract. Unlike a sale or gift of personal property, a bailment involves a change in possession but not in title, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 137.
Heirloom
jewels of the Crown are heirlooms. Heirlooms strictly so called are now rarely met with. See Williams on personal Property; Co. Litt. 18b, 185b; 2 Bl. Com. 428. The term 'heirlooms' is often applied in practice to the … subject of property at all, if they are so far tame as to be under control, they are personal property. By special custom, such articles as the best bed and utensils, and other household implements, might be heirlooms,
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