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Separation

21 QBD 424; Sweet v. Sweet, (1895) 1 QB 12. The Court will decree specific performance of an agreement to execute a deed of immediate separation if based upon sufficient consideration, Gibbs v. Harding, (1870) LR 5

Sufferance, Tenancy at

at the determination of the original lease, and is permitted by the reversioner to hold over, is a quasi-tenant at sufferance. Lord Coke tells us (in 2 Inst. 134) this diversity is to be observed, that where … title, is at an end, continues (having no title at all) in possession of the land, without the agreement or disagreement of the person in whom the right of possession resides. Thus if A is a tenant

debt

: something owed: as a : a specific sum of money or a performance due another esp. by agreement (as a loan agreement) [to pay the s…of the United States "U.S. Constitution art. I"] [a for alimony]

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League of Nations (Societe des Nations)

at the conclusion of the War of 1914-1919 (First World War), with a membership of 58 States. The Covenant, consisting of 26 Articles at the beginning of each of the Peace Treaties, is its charter, pledging these

Way

Way Act, 1932, s. 4, as to the rights of remainderman or reversioners next entitled in possession. A quasi-private right of way may also be grounded on a special permission; as when the owner of lands grants … existed forty years, it shall be absolute and indefeasible, unless it appears to have been enjoyed by express agreement made for that purpose by deed or writing. The right must be proved by user down to the

Law

All the rules of conduct established and enforced by the authority. Webster American Dictionary, p. 808. Is an agreement between a native ruler and a company executing the company taxes and action, is not law, Bengal N.C.

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