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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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