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Q.V.
Q.V. (quod vide), used to refer a reader to the word, chapter, etc., the name of which it immediately
Widow
infants to use personal chattels. If the intestate leaves no issue surviving him or her and attaining a vested interest, then subject to the life interest of the surviving husband or wife the residuary estate is to
Fraud
order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to got an advantage, S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR 1994 SC 853 (855): (1994) 1 SCC 1. A term used in a variety of meanings. … are transactions between parent and child, attorney and client, principal and agent, guardian and ward, trustee and cestui que trust, partners, etc. Others are of a mixed character, combining the ingredients of the preceding with others of
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Alien
alien enemy was to be naturalized for ten years after the termination of the Great War. The important question of the status of aliens is dealt with by ss. 17 & 18, which are as follows:-- 17. … British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict.
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)-(1) for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel (see that title), 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96 (the LibelAct,1843); and (2) the Fatal Accidents Act,1846, now, with its amending Acts, known as the
Chattels or catals
consists for the most part in the fixity or non-fixity of their duration. It is the latter property, viz., uncertainty of duration, that characterizes a freehold; it is the former, certainty, that characterizes a chattel real or
Searches
for and obtain an official certificate of search at the Land Registry, which covers all the registers there, viz.: (1) pending ss. or lis pendens; (2) writs and orders affecting land, such as writs of execution or
Tail
grant the fee-simple in the property to another person and his heirs without barring the entail, only a qualified or base fee will pass, com-mensurate with the estate-tail, capable, however, of being rendered absolute by barring the … a, unless there be a limitation over to a third person on default of such descendants, when it vests in such third person or remainder-man. Before 1926, in order to create an estate-tail by deed, the word
Estate owner
Estate owner. Under the Law of Properties Act, 1925, ss. 1(4) and 205(v.), means the owner of a legal estate (q.v.) in land, but an infant is not capable of being an estate owner. Estate owners...
Issue
r. 1, a judge may direct preparation of issues, and settle them if the parties differ. See Williams v. Stanley, (1926) 2 KB 37, as to the meaning of issue in regard to costs, and see PLEADING. … arising from lands or tenements, amerciaments, or fines. (3) Event, consequence, evacuation, sending forth. (4) The point in question, as the conclusion of the pleadings between contending parties in an action, when one side affirms and the
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