Purchase - Law Dictionary Search Results
Dower
at length gave way to the universal practice of making an artificial form of a conveyance, on a purchase of land, which obtained the name of a 'conveyance to uses to bar dower.' The land was conveyed
Disability
partial, as infancy, coverture, lunacy, and drunkenness. As to which, see the various titles relating thereto. The compulsory purchase, by railway and other companies, of the lands of persons under disability is regulated by the Lands Clauses
Development Commissioners
experiments, and research for the purpose of promoting forestry and the teaching of methods of afforestation; (2) the purchase and planting of land found after inquiry to be suitable for afforestation); (c) The reclamation and drainage of
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Deposit
regarded, not only as a land a deposit is regarded, not only as a part payment of the purchase money, but also as a guarantee that the contract shall be completed by the purchaser, and may be
Denizen
branch of the Royal Prerogative, and is subject to no restrictions whatever. The denizen might hold lands by purchase or devise, which an alien might not, but could not take by inheritance before the (English) Naturalization Act,
Deferred life annuities
Deferred life annuities, annuities for the life of the purchaser, but not commencing until a date subsequent to the date of buying them, so that if the purchaser
Damages
way of compensation for a fraud, or for the non-performance of a contract relating to the sale and purchase of realty. This was amended by the (English) Chancery Amendment Act, 1858 (21 & 23 Vict. c. 27),
Entitled to act
he would have been competent to alienate the land and receive and give a good discharge for the purchase money on a voluntary sale. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 3(g)]
Corporation sole
constituted in a single person, who in right of some office or function, has a capacity to take, purchase, hold and demise real property and now, it would seem, also to take and hold personal property, Halsbury's
Conversion, equitable
Conversion, equitable. It is an established principle that money directed to be employed in the purchase of realty, and realty directed to be sold and turned into money, are considered inequity as that species
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