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Quantum damnificatus, Issue

was directed by Chancery to be tried at law to fix the amount of compensation for damage, which prior to the Chancery Amendment Act, 1858 (see that title), could not be awarded in Chancery.

Resignation and voluntary retirement

can only be sought for after rendering prescribed period of qualifying service. In the case of resignation, a prior permission is not mandatory while in the case of voluntary retirement, permission of the employer concerned is a

Quia Emptores, Statute of

It is entitled in the Parliament-roll, from the subject of it, statutum regis de terris vendendis et emendis. Prior to this statute any person might, by a grant of land, have created a tenure as of his

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Quit rent

statute Quia Emptores (see MANOR; QUIA EMPTORES), every quit rent must have become first payable at a date prior to that statute. A quit rent may be 'redeemed' by the owner of the land subject thereto, under

Race-notice statute

Race-notice statute, means a recording law providing that the person who records first without notice of prior unrecorded claim, has priority, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1265.

Rastell

printers of the time of Henry VIII. John Rastell translated from the French the 'Abridgment of the Statutes prior to the time of Henry VII.' He also abridged those of Henry VII., and down tc the 23

Real Property Act, 1845

Law of Property Act, 1925. The main provisions of the Act of 1845 affect all titles after 1845; prior to 1926, they included: Partitions or exchanges of freehold land, leases required by law to be in writing,

Real representative

31st December, 1897, and the 1st January, 1926, under the provisions of the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897. Prior to the commencement on the 1st of January, 1898, of the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 [see (English)

Reconversion

to Hinduism, a person can once again become a member of the scheduled caste to which he belonged prior to his conversion for the social and economic disabilities once again revive and become attached to him, C.M.

Recovery

sub-ordinate to the entail. But incumbrances on the estate-tail equally affected such fee-simple, and any estate or interest prior to the entail remained undisturbed. This assurance consisted of two parts: (1) The recovery itself, which was a

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