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Priority Caution. See CAUTION. This form of caution is not available at the Land Registry except for the protection of persons entitled to 'minor interests' (see LAND REGISTRATION), and does not affect a purchaser for value. Consult Fortescue-Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace, Land Registration Act, 1925....
Caution
Caution, a species of bail; security. When used in this sense, the word is pronounced 'cayshon.'--Scots Law. In England, any warning. A prisoner or accused person is 'cautioned' before making a statement, that such statement may be used in evidence upon his trial.Caution.--Under the (English) Land Registration Act, 1925, ss. 54 to 56, is a notice to the Registrar in the nature of a caveat to the effect that the cautioner is entitled to be served with a notice of any application for the registration of an interest in registered land affecting the cautioner. Registration, as a rule, will to be effected until a reasonable time (usually 14 days) has elapsed after service of notice, or the cautioner has entered an appearance. Cautions may be lodged against first registration to protect unregistered mortgages, contracts for purchase, the vesting of equitably settled estates and other purposes. Cautions to protect unregistered mortgages under s. 106 of the (English) L. R. Act, 1925, confer a ...
Registration of title of land
Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the (English) Land Transfer Acts, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87) and 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), with amendments in keeping with innovations which were introduced by the property laws of 1925. Its object is to simplify the indicia of land ownership and transfer by mere inscription and transcription in a register. The advantages which are claimed for the system are (a) purchasers for value of an absolute or good leasehold title are absolved from any inquiry into the title other than it is shown to be on the register; (b) certain equitable claims which would be binding on the land under the general law and cannot be removed or over-reached without onerous formalities do not affect such purchasers; (c) the method of conveyance or charge is simple; (d) subject to the statutory provisions, registration guarantees the title to purchasers for value and mortgagees. It should be observ...
Priority
Priority, an antiquity of tenure in comparison with another less ancient; also that which is before another in order of time.As to priority among creditors, see (English) Admin-istration of Estates Act, 1869, reproduced by ss. 32 to 34, (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and the First Sch., which provides that in the administration of the estate of any person who shall die on or after 1st January, 1870, no debt or liability of such person shall be entitled to any priority or preference by reason merely that the same is secured by or arises under a bond, deed, or other instrument under seal, or is otherwise made or constituted a specialty debt.The priority in legal and equitable assignments of equitable choses in action are determined accord-ing to the date of receipt of notice by the persons who are for the time being owners of the legal interest in the property assigned. Before 1926 the notice might be verbal; after 1926 it must, for the purposes of establishing priority a...
priority date
priority date The priority date decides a person's turn to apply for an immigrant visa. In family immigration the priority date is the date when the petition was filed at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office or submitted to an Embassy or Consulate abroad. In employment immigration the priority date may be the date the labor certification application was received by the Department of Labor (DOL). Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
priority claim
priority claim An unsecured claim that is entitled to be paid ahead of other unsecured claims that are not entitled to priority status. Priority refers to the order in which these unsecured claims are to be paid.proof of claim A written statement and verifying documentation filed by a creditor that describes the reason the debtor owes the creditor money. (There is an official form for this purpose.) Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Cautione admittenda
Cautione admittenda, a writ that lies against a bishop who holds an excommunicated person in prison for contempt, notwithstanding he offers sufficient caution or security to obey the orders and commandment of the church for the future, Reg. Brev. 66....
priority
priority pl: -ties : precedence in exercise of rights in the same subject matter [secured interests have over unsecured ones] adj 1 : having precedence over another in the exercise of rights in the same subject matter [a creditor] [a claim] 2 : of or relating to priority [a contest] ...
Priority Notice
Priority Notice, of charge under (English) Land Charges Act, 1925. By the (English) Law of Property (Amendment) Act, 1926, s. 4, persons intending to register a charge, instrument or matter under the Land Charges Act, 1925, may give notice at the (English) Land Charges Department of the Land Registry at least two days before the registration, and the effect of the notice is to relate the date of registration of the charge, instrument or matter as provided by s. 4 if the application to register is presented within fourteen days after the date of entry of notice, and refers to the notice: thus protecting the person intending to register from incumbrances created subsequently to the notice and before application to register.A form of notice providing temporary protection for an application about to be made for first registra-tion of land at the Land Registry (see (English) Land Registration Rules, 1925); also a notice protecting the priority of an intended dealing in registered land; the ...
Cautioner
One who cautions or advises...
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