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Succession duties
parent to 10 per cent. in the case of succession to a stranger in blood, upon real or personal property to which any person succeeds on the death of another. The duty is calculated on the capitalized value
Salary or wages
of the property. Delivery of tangible immovable property takes place when the seller place the buyer, or such person as he directs, in possession of the property, Pyare Lal v. Emperor, AIR 1945 All 135: (1945) ILR
Husband and wife
unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY. At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband and his wife and a third person was construed as a gift to the husband
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Specific performance
contract relating to the sale or lease of land will be specifically enforced, but not contracts relating to personal property except under very special circumstances, as where damages do not afford an adequate remedy. The Court will not
bailment
bayllment, from bailler to hand over see bail ] : the transfer of possession but not ownership of personal property (as goods) for a limited time or specified purpose (as transportation) such that the individual or business entity … consumption and loan for use at loan NOTE: The typical elements of a bailment are delivery of the personal property, acceptance of the delivery, and possession or control of the property. Any of these elements may be actual
Deed
s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two
Personal effects
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Marshalling
given to the same person. these doctrines have not been affected by the vesting of real property in personal representatives (English) (Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 2), except that by s. 34, ibid., some alteration in
Merger
be extinguished, whilst as against another it may still have existence. Before the passing of the (English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106) (repealed and reproduced by the (English) Law of Property Act, … by act of law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into possession the expectant which swallows up the particular estate.
Possession
Soorajmal v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1992) Cr LJ 3206. Possession, need not be actual, physical possession or personal occupation, but may be possession in law. 'Possession' means 'the state of owning or having in one's hands … but the occupation must be with the intention of exercising some claim or right in respect of the property occupied. A person who has no claim to the property but succeeds by show of force in acquiring
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