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Annuity
apart a fund for an annuity, the annuitant 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
Chattels or catals
that 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 … (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925 [replacing the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897], which assimilated the devolution to personal representatives of real estate to of the (English) Administrative Estate Act, 1925, which abolished all the existing rules of
Joint-tenancy
the 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 … treats them as tenants in common, holding the survivor to be trustee of the legal estate for the personal representatives of the deceased partner as to his share. Wares, merchandise, and stock in trade belonging to partners, survive
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Legal representative
SCC 234: (1987) 3 SCR 404. [Motor Vehicles Act, (4 of 1939), s. 92A] The definition of 'legal representatives' includes heirs as well as persons who represent the estate even without title either as executors or administrators … Legal representative, a 'legal representative' ordinarily means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person or a person on whom the estate devolves
Trust for sale
providing an expedient, which, together with the Settled Land Acts and other statutes giving analogous powers to mortgagees, personal representatives and trustees in bankruptcy, provided a model for much of the land legislation of 1925. Beneficiaries under a … a person dying after 1925 is not a conveyance of the legal estate, which now devolves upon the personal representatives by Act of law; it is a trust instrument only. Sect. 205 (1) (xxxix.) of the (English) L.P.
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 and … 'to be payable' are omitted and the legacy is to A. on attaining twenty-one years of age his personal representatives will not be entitled to the legacy if he dies under that age. These are said to be
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 … 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
Trust
benefit of another (hence called the cestui que trust, or beneficiary), not, however, issuing out of real or personal property, but as a collateral incident accompanying it, annexed in privity to (i.e., commensurate with) the interest in … 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.
Workmen's Compensation Act
to compensation under the Acts is 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] … AND SERVANT), and an employer is not liable both for damages and compensation; but the workman or his representatives may elect between the remedies, and in an unsuccessful action for damages the Court may assess or refer
representative
of the principal c : one that represents or stands in the place of a deceased person : personal representative d : one that represents another as successor or heir e : one named as the plaintiff … as a member of a legislative or other governing body ;specif : a member of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress or a state legislature b : one that represents another as agent, deputy, substitute,
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