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Casualty Pot
Casualty Pot : a step in calculating tax liability under Internal Revenue Code section 1231 in which qualified casualty gains and losses are added together to determine if the result is a net loss or net gain compare main pot NOTE: Property that qualifies for inclusion in the Casualty Pot consists of casualties of depreciable and real property used in a trade or business for more than one year and capital assets held for more than one year in connection with a trade or business or transaction made for profit. If the net result of the calculation is a loss, then the ordinary rules for gains and losses apply to the casualties. If the net result is a gain, the entire amount passes into the Main Pot. ...
Personal effects
Personal effects, generally include such tangible property as is worn or carried about the person, or to designate articles associated with the person. Personal effects are used to designate articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor, or such tangible property as attends the person, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 31, p. 277.In the unabridged edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, at page 1075, the expression is given the following meaning: Personal effects, privately owned articles consisting chiefly of clothing, toilet items, etc., for intimate use by an individual. In Black's Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, at page 1301, the expression is assigned the following meaning: Personal effects, articles associated with person, as property having more or less intimate relation to person of possessor. In Cyclopedic Law Dictionary, Third Edition, at page 832, the expression 'personal effects' witho...
Widow's Estate
Widow's Estate, is the result of the sastric law codified through judicial precedents. Thus the 'women's estate' in its larger connotation means: 'All property which has given to a woman by any means and from any source whatsoever and includes both properties in which she has absolute estate stridhana and property in which she has only a limited interest and the term is used in the context only later sense of property in which she takes only a limited or qualified interest. Such property is ether property inherited by woman, or property which has been allotted to her in a partition in her husband's family, Atava Akkulamma v. Gajjela Papi Reddy, AIR 1995 SC 166....
Covenant
Covenant [fr. Covenant, Fr.], any agreement, convention, or promise of two or more parties, by deed in writing, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which either of the parties pledges himself to the other that something is either done or shall be done, or stiuplates for the truth of certain facts. He who thus promises is called the covenantor; and he to whom it is made the covenantee. A covenant being part of a deed is subject to the general rules for the construction of such instruents; as, first, to be always taken most strongly against the covenanter and most in favour of the covenantee; secondly, to be taken according to the intent of the parties; thirdly, to be construed ut res magis valeat quam pereat; fourthy, when no time is limited for its performance, that it be performed in a reasonable time.Covenants are personal obligations; formerly the did not bind theheirs of the covenanter unless the heirs were named and inthat case only to the extent of the lands descended, but if made ...
Law Reform (UK)
Law Reform (UK). By the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his estate. See actio personalis, and by s. 1(2) it is enacted:Where a cause of action survives as aforesaid for the benefit of the estate of a deceased person the damages recoverable for the benefit of the estate of that person:-(a) shall not include any exemplary damages;(b) in the case of a breach of promise to marry shall be limited to such damage, if any, to the estate of that person as flows from the breach of promise to marry;(c) where the death of that person has been caused by the act of omission which gives rise to the cause of action, shall be calculated without reference to any loss or gain to his estate consequent on his death, except that a sum in respect of funeral expenses may be included.See Rose v. Ford, (1937) 53 TLR 873.The right...
Base fee
Base fee. A species of inheritable freehold estate which forms part of the class of estates known as conditional freeholds of inheritance. In a more special sense, a base fee was until 1926 a fee simple determinable on the failure of issue of an original donee of the estate in tail. It was limited by the failure of the heirs of the body of that donee to take, and upon that failure the persons next entitled in remainder became entitled to the remainder in tail or in fee simple, as the case might be. As where a tenant-in-tail, with remainder to a stranger, conveys the fee-simple to another in the property entailed upon him, such other takes a qualified fee by legal construction, determinable on the death of the tenant-in-tail and failure of the issue under the entail. Another example of such an estate is when a tenant-in-tail, not being himself entitled to the immediate remainder or reversion in fee, conveys without the consent of the protectors of the settlement; he then transfers a bas...
Simple trust
Simple trust: where property is vested in one person upon trust for another, and the nature of the trust, not being qualified by the settlor, is left to the construction of law. In this case the cestui que trust has jushabendi, or the right to be put into actual possession of the property, Jusdisponendi, or the right to call upon the trustee to execute conveyances of the legal estate as the cestui que trust directs. See BARE TRUSTEE and Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 3 (3), and Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 7 (5), enabling a person entitled to a legal estate to have it conveyed to him, and also L.P. Act, 1925, 1st Sch., Part II., par. (3), as amended by the L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, vesting the estate existing on 1st January, 1926, in the beneficial owner by force of the statute....
terminable
terminable : capable of being terminated see also qualified terminable interest property at property terminable interest at interest ...
Fee
Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or conditional or base fee, including (3) fee-tail, formerly fee-conditional. By the (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 1, a fee-simple absolute in possession and a term of years absolute are the only estates in land capable of being conveyed or created at law. All other estates in land take effect as equitable interests [ibid., s. 1 (4)]. See FEE-SIMPLE.A charge for labour or services esp. professional services; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 629.A 'fee' is generally defined to be a charge for a special service rendered to individuals by some governmental agency. The distinction between a tax and a fee lies primarily in the fact that a tax is levied as a part of a common burden, while a fee is a payment for a special benefit or privilege, Com...
Rooks
Rooks are animals (fer' natur'), and no action is maintainable for scaring them away from a rookery by discharging guns near it, Hannam v. Mockett, (1824) 2 B&C 934. But see FER' NATUR' and the qualified right of property, and therefore of action, ratione impotenti' in regard to young birds' nests....
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