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Presumptive title
Matched in: Term Presumptive title
Possession
a person enters into lands or tenements descended or conveyed to him; apparent, which is a species of presumptive title where land descended to the heir of an abator, intruder, or disseisor, who died seised; in law, when
Presumption of survivorship
recognized no such presumption, but by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 184, in all questions affecting title to property upon deaths in similar circumstances after 1925, the younger is presumed to have survived, subject to … Presumption of survivorship. Where two or more persons perish by the same calamity, the Civil Law presumes that the
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Possession follows title
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Prescription
Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio. Title by prescription … by the law.) Every species of prescription, by which property is acquired or lost, is founded on the presumption that he who has had a quiet and uninterrupted possession of anything for a long period of years
Lost grant
of land for a considerably long period when such user is found to be in open assertion of title, exclusive and uninterrupted, Konda Lakshmana Bapuji v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 2002 SC 1012 (1034): (2002) 3 … Lost grant, is a mere presumption from long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner, that there must have
Remainder
disseised by B., then, while the possession continues in B., it is a mere possession unsupported by any presumption of right, and A. may restore his possession by an entry on the land, without any previous action. … of personality as well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to land existing before 1926, and see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4, as to the
Tail
not bound to pay off any charge or incumbrance affecting the estate; if, however, he do so, the presumption is that the meant to exonerate the estate (for he might, if he pleased, have acquired the fee-simple), … 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which
Joint-tenancy
in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been vested in trustees … security, yet equity holds that it could never have been intended that their interests should survive, the fair presumption being that each means to lend his own money, and to be repaid his own again. The consequence
Sessions of the peace
by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:- I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of … accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the
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