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Vivum vadium, Vifgage or Living pledge

a person borrows money of another, and grants to him an estate to hold till the rents and profits shall repay the sum borrowed with interest. The estate is conditioned to be void as soon as the

Vir et uxor sunt quasi unica persona

person, and their heirs, A. and B. being one person taken a moiety only of the rents and profits, with a power to dispose only of one-half of the inheritance; and C., the third person, will take

Vested remainder

right of future enjoyment, i.e., an estate in pr'senti, to take effect in possession and pernancy of the profits in futuro, can transfer, alien, and charge it much in the same manner as an estate in possession,

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Use

man for the holdings of lands, that he to whose use the trust is made shall take the profits thereof, Tomlins. Use, in relation to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, means any kind of use except personal

Undivided shares in land

to take effect as equitable interests only in the net proceeds of sale and of the rents and profits of the entirety of the land until sale, while the legal estate must be held by trustees for

Trust for sale

them on trust for sale [s. 28 (1)]. Sub-s. (2) (ibid.) provides for the destination of rents and profits until sale, incidentally overruling Howe v. Lord Dartmouth, ubi sup., where that case would be applicable but without

Tithe Rent-Charge

which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually

Reversion

or term of years absolute in which case there is an estate in possession of the rents and profits as well as in the freehold or leasehold reversion, which together may form a legal estate subject to

Tax

the excise or customs. Taxes may be laid on any one of the three sources of income (rent, profits, or wages); or a uniform tax on all of them, Smith's Wealth of Nat., b. 5, ch. ii.;

Suspense, Suspension

also a censure on ecclesiastical persons, during which they are forbidden to exercise their offices or take the profits of their benefices.

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