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Contingent legacy
direction to pay out of a mixed fund where the proceeds of sale are to be mixed with personalty the legacy is payable according to the rules applicable to personalty. Where legacies are charged on both real
Capita, Per
Capita, Per (by heads). Distribution of personalty per capita (professedly borrowed from the civilians, and enacted in the Statute of Distribution) happens when all the
Movables
Movables, goods, furniture, personalty. --means any movable tangible property, other than the ship, and includes money, valuable securities and other documents. [Marine
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Mixed property
Mixed property, a compound of realty and personalty.
Money land
and now, by s. 130, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, an equitable interest may be created in personalty as well as in real property. (Sale of Property Act, 1930)
Mortgage
& 31 Vict. c. 69), provides that in construing wills a general direction to pay debts out of personalty shall not include mortgage debts, unless an intention to that effect be expressed or implied. These Acts were
Mortmain
the manner pointed out under the title CHARITABLE USES AND TRUSTS. in regard to assurances of land or personalty or enactments declaring a charitable use executed after 1925, alterations and enrolment under s. 4, sub-ss. (6) and
Wild's case, Rule in
Rep. 16 b; Tud. L.C. on Real Property, 2nd Edn. 542, 581. The rule did not apply to personalty; see Audsley v. Horn, (1858) 26 Beav 195: 1 De GF&J 226; 2 Jarm. on Wills; Theobald on
Pecunia dicitur a pecus omnes enim veterum diviti' in animalibus consistebant
cattle (pecus), because all the wealth of our ancestors consisted in cattle.) So chattels (cattle) means all tangible personalty.
Property
sorts: absolute, qualified, and possessory. Property in realty is acquired by entry, conveyance, descent, or devise; and in personalty, by many ways, but most usually by gift, bequest, or bargain and sale. Under the (English) Law of
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