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Freehold
unshackled, and by far the greater part of the real property in this country is freehold. Such an interest in lands of frank tenement as may endure not only during the owner's life, but which is cast … known in ancient times by the phrase 'tenure in free socage,' and the only free lay-mode of holding property. It is derived from the feudal system, but the services connected with it were honourable and mild. The
use
and profits of property beneficial use : the use of a cestui que use analogous to a beneficial interest in a trust : use re·sult·ing use : a use that equity attributes back to a grantor when … use 1 a : an arrangement in which property is granted to another with the trust and confidence that the grantor or another is entitled to the
Title
union of all elements (as ownership possession, and custody) constituting the legal right to control and dispose of property; the legal link between a person who owns property and the property itself, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., … or any other statute is void (L.P. Act, 1925), s. 42, and see s. 43 as to registered interests; 3. That all the particular estates either were determined before 1926, or if no vesting deed, trust for
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Marriage settlement
before marriage, and in consideration of it (the highest consideration known to the law), whereby real or personal property is settled for the benefit of the husband and wife and the issue of the marriage. There is … being effected by way of trust for sale), and if providing for infant or for a succession of interests in land or charging land (but in this case subject to the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act,
Executor
Act, 1897, real property devolves in the same manner as personal property, with some exceptions, e.g., an entailed interest not disposed of by the will, and property held in joint tenancy, and he can sell or mortgage … by a testator to carry out the directions and requests in his will, and to dispose of the property according to his testamentary provisions after his decease. One who performs or carries out some act, Black's Law
succession
or both 3 : the act or process by which a person becomes entitled to the property or property interest of a deceased person and esp. an intestate : the transmission of the estate of a decedent to
Evacuee
exercise any rights in that property except with the consent of the Custodian. He merely had some beneficial interest in that property. No doubt that residual interest in a sense is ownership, R.B. Jodha Mal Kuthiala v. … Evacuee, The evacuee cannot take possession of his property. He cannot lease that property. He cannot sell that property without the consent of the Custodian. He can
due process
found in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which states “no person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” and in the Fourteenth Amendment, which states “nor shall any state deprive any … procedural due process 2 : a requirement that laws and regulations must be related to a legitimate government interest (as crime prevention) and may not contain provisions that result in the unfair or arbitrary treatment of an
Compensation
his property in Pakistan and is not the recognition of a right to compensation for deprivation of his interest, if any, in the allotted property by cancellation, Amar Singh v. Custodian Evacuee Property, AIR 1957 SC 599: … the right to compensation is guaranteed by the Constitution or regarded as inextricably involved in the right to property, Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248: AIR 1970 SC 564: (1970) 3 SCR
Covenant
or covenant respecting land, and this was extended by s. 56 of the (English) L.P.Act, 1925, to any property. It should be observed that this enactment relates to interests or covenants of which the benefit would otherwise … Dodd, 52 LJ Ch 34) who were not parties to a deed to take the benefit of any interest, right or covenant respecting land, and this was extended by s. 56 of the (English) L.P.Act, 1925, to
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