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purchase if the purchase is completed within two days [(English) L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, s. 4; see also PRIORITY NOTICE]. At the Land Registry the application for search must be made in the separate and respective names

Salary or wages

to sales of land, see ABSTRACT; CONDITIONS OF SALE; CONTRACT FOR SALE OF LAND; ESTATE CONTRACT; LAND CHARGES; PRIORITY NOTICE; and Williams or Dart on Vendors and Purchasers; and as to sale of goods, see Benjamin on

Round-robin

origin. In each compartment is a signature, so that the entire circle, when filled, exhibits a list without priority being given to any name. A common form of round-robin is simply to write the names in a

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Restrictive Covenant

against a purchaser of the (servient) land for money or money's worth. See also REGISTRATION OF LAND and PRIORITY NOTICE. As to extinction or modification of these covenants, see Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 84, enabling

Preferred work

Preferred work, means any work which is taken up for implementation on a priority basis under a scheme. [National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (42 of 2005), s. 2(k)]

Rent

degree than simple contract debts, and of equal degree with specialty debts; but that Act has abolished the priority, see Shirreff v. Hastings, (1877) 6 Ch D 610, and see now the Administration of Estates Act, 1925,

Remainder

in remainder (if there be any), otherwise the estate in reversion, will become an estate in possession, with priority as to the estate in remainder, when there are several, according to the order in which they are

Rank - Precedence

organisa-tion, of high social order or other standing status. Likewise the word 'precedence' denotes the ceremonial order or priority to be observed on formal occasions, or a right to preferential treatment. In the same strain the word

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.

Puisne mortgage

created after 1925, must be registered at the Land Charges Registry, Red Lion Square, or they will lose priority; see, further, MORTGAGE CHARGE. Mortgages created before 1926 may be registered before transfer. This amounts to notice, but

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