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Secundo geniture

A right of inheritance belonging to a second son a property or possession so inherited

Orthotomy

The property of cutting at right angles

VerbarMajorat

The right of succession to property according to age so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe

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Hypotheque

Hypotheque, the right acquired by the creditor over the immovable property which has been assigned to him by his debtor as security for his debt, although he be not

Property

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interest

concern, from inter- between, among + esse to be] 1 : a right, title, claim, or share in property Article Nine security interest : security interest in this entry beneficial interest : the right to the use

Copyhold

for the Land Commissioners in accordance with the Board of Agriculture Act, 1889. Under the (English) Law of Property Acts, 1922, (Amendment) 1924, 1925 and (Amendment) 1926, copyhold and customary tenures have been converted into a qualified … the third, and so on, according to the number of the tenants. Joint tenants succeed each other by right of survivorship and without a new admittance, and fines are not due but upon admittance; the application, therefore,

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 … but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the lapse of the

Possession

but the occupation must be with the intention of exercising some claim or right in respect of the property occupied. A person who has no claim to the property but succeeds by show of force in acquiring

Pawn or Pledge

to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right … time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a

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