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Satisfaction
if it be of a lesser amount than the legacy, such portion will then only adeem the legacy pro tanto. (2) The satisfaction of a portion by a legacy. The rule is, that wherever a legacy given by … When the legacy is not so great as the portion or provision, it is then only a satisfaction pro tanto, Hinchcliffe v. Hinchcliffe, (1797) 3 Ves 516. The bequest of a whole or part of a residue will,
Joint-tenancy
own share in his lifetime, which, of course, each can do; so a partial alienation is a severance pro tanto, for alienatio rei pr'fertur juri accrescendi. The right of survivorship is necessarily reciprocal; for otherwise there would be
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Beer
discretion to refuse licenses for the sale of beer to be drunk off the premises where sold, repealing pro tanto the Act of 1869, which limited the power to refuse such licenses to cases where the applicant or
Cessio bonorum
the debt, unless the property ceded was sufficient for that purpose. It otherwise operated only as a discharge pro tanto, and exonerated the debtor from imprisonment. Huberus informs us that in Holland a cessio bonorum does not even
Innocent conveyances
therefore, if a greater interest be conveyed by these deeds than a person has, they are only void, pro tanto, for the excess. But a feoffment of such larger estate was a tortious conveyance, and therefore, under such
Land-tax
rack-rent; and if a tenant have to any extent a beneficial interest, he becomes liable to the tax pro tanto, and can only charge the residue on his landlord. Houses and buildings appropriated to public purposes are not
Marshalling
if that mortgage is paid off out of the property in which they are so interested, to stand pro tanto in the place of the first mortgagee in regard to the property which has not been resorted to
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