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Annuity

cannot claim the capital value of the annuity from the personal representatives. As to the power of the personal representative to set aside a fund to answer an annuity, see s. 41 f the (English) A. E. Act,

Chattels or catals

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 … freeholds of inheritance devolved at law upon the heir or devisee, while chattels real devolved on the personal representatives of the deceased. This difference has now been abolished, firstly, by s. 1 of the (English) Administration of

Joint-tenancy

Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in … survivor who holds the entire legal estate by survivorship is deemed by equity a trustee for the personal representatives of the deceased co-mortgagee until the money be repaid. Equity then treats the two mortgagees as tenants in

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Legal representative

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Trust for sale

may be declared by the instrument creating the trust, or to a trust corporation, or to a sole personal representative acting under his powers as such. Receipts by these discharge the purchaser of a legal estate from seeing

Contingent legacy

one years, the legacy is vested and not contingent and although he may never attain the age his personal representatives will be entitled to the legacy, but if the words 'paid' or 'to be payable' are omitted … years, the legacy is vested and not contingent and although he may never attain the age his personal representatives will be entitled to the legacy, but if the words 'paid' or 'to be payable' are omitted and

Fixtures

not terminated by his own act, Woodfall, L. and T. (2) Before 1926, between the heir and the personal representative of the terre-tenants. Though the fixtures will generally pass with the freehold to the heir, yet such of … heir, yet such of them as are put up for ornament, domestic use, or trade devolve to the personal representative, provided they can be easily removed and are not essential to the enjoyment of the inheritance. See Re

Trust

or a trust corporation (see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, and (English) Settled Land Act, 1925). A personal representative selling for the purpose of administration can give a valid receipt [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. … the death of a sole trustee, or the last of several trustees, the legal estate vests in his personal representative as if it were a chattel real [(English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 30], replaced by Administration of Estates

Workmen's Compensation Act

s. 5 (1) 'employer' is defined as including 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate and the legal personal representative of a deceased employer, and where the services of a workman are temporarily lent or let on hire

representative

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