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or by a conveyance of their estate by either of them; so that the assigns, or real or personal representatives, of the former, according to the quantity of his estate, and the assignees, or personal representatives, of … by a conveyance of their estate by either of them; so that the assigns, or real or personal representatives, of the former, according to the quantity of his estate, and the assignees, or personal representatives, of the

Debt

See also Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 34, which expressly recognizes the right of retainer of a personal representative within the limits therein set out. It is a chose in action and is heritable and assignable and

Delectus person'

held that a positive stipulation between the partners at the commence-ment of the partnership, that the heir or personal representative of a partner should succeed him in the partnership, was inoperative and incapable of being enforced. The common

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Legacy duty

10 per cent. in proportion of the distance of relationship between the testator or intestate and legatee. The personal representative is liable to pay the duty. He must show a receipt signed by the legate giving certain particulars, … thereon. Duty is then paid and the receipt is stamped. If the duty is not paid by the personal representative the legatee is chargeable. The principal Acts relating to the legacy duty are the (English) Legacy Duty Act,

Representation

Representation, standing in the place of another for certain purposes, as heirs, executors, or administrators. See EXECUTOR; ADMINISTRATOR; PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE; REAL REPRESENTATIVE. A presentation of fact-either by words or by conduct -- made to induce some one to

Negligence

for whom they are intended: see e.g., Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills Ltd., 79 SJ 815. Action by Representatives of Deceased Persons.--An action for pecuniary loss arising from negligence causing death passes to the representative or next … respect of funeral expenses. This Act has to a great extent revolutionized the application of the principle actio personalis moritur cum persona, to which the above-mentioned Acts have only been isolated exceptions. See ACTIO PERSONALIS and LAW

legal representative

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Widow

to deaths after 1925, by the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 46:- (1) The residuary (real and personal) estate of an intestate shall be distributed in the manner or be held on the trusts mentioned in … The statutory powers for advancement, maintenance, accumulation of income and hotchpot (q.v.) are to apply and the personal representatives may allow infants to use personal chattels. If the intestate leaves no issue surviving him or her and

Tail

expressly or by general reference to his entailed estates, and in that case it passes to his personal representatives and is liable for his debts. (4) It might have been lost by escheat; by forfeiture for treason … freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will

Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

Actio personalis moritur cum persona. A personal action dies with the person, i.e., the right to sue is gone. 'As … or the injuring party. Besides the statutory exceptions mentioned below, an action may be brought by the personal representatives of a deceased person for injury done to his property in his lifetime. It has also been applied

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