Skip to content

Persons Interested - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Registration of title of land

land registered after 1925 are now included in the word 'land' by the Act, subject to its provisions. Persons interested in the transfer or charge of registered land should be careful to make all proper inquiries outside the

Tail

ibid.), for an estate in fee-simple absolute, or for any less estate, the lands entailed, as against all persons claiming the lands entailed by force of any estate-tail which shall be vested in, or might be claimed … [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a 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

Joint-tenancy

conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, … 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

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Deed

s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two … by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons

Remainder

estate. When there are a particular estate and a remainder, the several limitations give distinct interests to the persons to whom these limitations are made. These interests (different as they are in their nature), and also a … Remainder [fr. remanentia, Lat.], that expectant portion, remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate, is at the same time limited over to another, who

Equitable estates and interests

Pott's Contract, (1905) 1 Ch 391: (1906) 1 Ch 386, binding not only the legal owner, but all persons deriving title under him, exept purchasers for value without notice. This is still the law subject to statutory … Equitable estates and interests, Rights relating to property of which the legal ownership is vested in another person, or in the equitable

Entitled to act

the First Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of persons interested appearing before a Collector or Court by a next friend, or by a guardian for the case, in

Chattels or catals

the (English) Administrative Estate Act, 1925, which abolished all the existing rules of descent to land belonging to persons dying after 1925 other than entailed interests, while s. 46 provides for the same rules of succession to … and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b. Chattels

Settled land

any estate or interest in land, 'stands for the time being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession' (Settled Land Act, 1882, s. 2) (see infra for the statutory definitions in the … 38 Vict. c. 33), gave large powers to the Court of Chancery, with the concurrence of the parties interested, to direct sales and leases of settled estates, and also enabled tenants for life, without application to any

party

against whom the plaintiff may bring a third-party complaint see also third-party complaint 2 : a group of persons usually sharing a set of political ideals who are organized for the purpose of directing the policies of … value and given for the benefit of an accommodated party secured party : a party holding a security interest in another's property third party : a person other than the principals [insurance against injury to a third

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial