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Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...
Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...
Lodger
Lodger, a tenant, with the right of exclusive possession, of a part of a house called lodgings, the landlord, by himself or an agent, retaining general dominion over the house itself.Lodgings may be let in the same manner as lands and tenements; in general, however, they are let either by agreement in writing or verbally. An executory verbal agreement may be void by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 40; and see Edgev Strafford, (1831) 1 C. & J. 391, as being a contract in relation to land, and a written agreement is often desirable to avoid dispute.Lodgers in rooms which have been let as a separate dwelling to them, unfurnished, may be tenants of a dwelling-house for the purpose of the (English) Rent Restrictions Acts, 1920, 1935, and if that dwelling or the house of which the rooms form parties not decontrolled, their tenancy is within those Acts (see INCREASEOF RENT). As to rent-books generally, in small houses, see (English) Housing Act, 1936, s. 4, and Part IV of that Act...
Mortmain
Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said to be in dead hand--in a hand that cannot shift away the property. It takes place upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268.By several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious and other corporations, which were supposed to hold them in a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord, the fruits of whose feudal seigniory (the great hinge of government in those days) were thus impaired. But either with or without the consent of the immediate lords (for this is doubtful), this forfeiture might be dispensed with by a licence in mortmain from the Crown, which licence was made sufficient without any such consent by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 37, repealed and reenacted by the consolidating mortmain and (English) Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. ...
Prize Court
Prize Court. This is an international tribunal, existing only by virtue of a special commission under the Great Seal, during war or until the litigations incident to war have been brought to a conclusion. It is frequently confounded with the Court of Admiralty, in consequence, perhaps, of the same judge having usually presided in both courts; but this is a mistake, for the whole system of litigation and jurisprudence in the prize Court, though exceedingly important, is peculiar to itself, and is governed by rules not applying to the Instance Court of the Admiralty (now part of the High Court), which is a mere civil tribunal.The old Court of Admiralty had in fact from very ancient times two separate and distinct jurisdictions--the Instance Jurisdiction and the Prize Jurisdiction, though the real origin of the latter is wrapped in obscurity. When the High Court of Admiralty became merged in the High Court of Justice, (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 23, replacing the (English) Jud. Act, 1891...
Equitable mortgage
Equitable mortgage, a mortgage under which the mortgagee does not get the legal estate. The following mortgages are equitable:-(1) Where the subject of a mortgage is trust property, which security is effected either by a formal deed or a written memorandum, notice being given to the trustees in order to preserve the priority. As a rule these mortgages include mortgages (not being mortgages of a legal estate) under a trust for sale or settlement which are not registrable under the (English) L.C. Act, 1925, s. 10, Class C.(2) Where the subject of the mortgage is an equity of redemption, which is merely a right to bring an action in the Chancery Division to redeem the estate. Now under the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, Sched. I., Parts VII. (1), (3), and VIII. (1), (3), and see ss. 85, 86, ibid., a mortgagor retains a legal estate in fee simple or for a term of years, and the first and subsequent mortgagees out of that estate each have a legal mortgage.(3) Where mortgages created before 1925 ...
Forgery
Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34.The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 661.Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate, simplify and amend the law relating to forgery and kindred offences.' It repeals such portions of s...
Glass
Glass. By the (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 81(1), every person who steals or with intent to steal breaks any glass belonging to any building, shall be guilty of a felony punishable as in the case of simple larceny.By (English) Carriers Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 and 1 Will. 4, c. 68), s. 1, a carrier is not liable for loss or damage above 10l. unless such glass has been declared and an increased charge accepted.As to deposit in streets and the power of making byelaws to prevent such a nuisance, see (English) Highways Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 72; (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 76), s. 16; Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39Vict. c. 55), s. 171; (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 28. (English) Under Factories and Workshops Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), 'Glass works' is a non-textile factory; see ss. 40, 78, regarding meals and meal-times in such works; as to night employment of persons of fourteen and...
Guardianship
Guardianship. The care of and responsibility for a person of non-age or infancy in regard to its person or property, or both. At Common Law, the father is the guardian by nature and nurture but the rights and duties relating to that office have been modified in favour of the mother by the (English) Custody of Infants Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 12, (English) Guardianship of Infants Acts, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 27), and 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 45), and the (English) Custody of Children Act, 1891 (54 Vict. c. 3). The main consideration is the welfare of the child. In modern times, guardians may be said to be of six kinds:-(1) Testamentary.--By 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 8, the father, and by s. 5 of the Act of 1925, both father and mother have an equal right to appoint a guardian by deed or will to act after death respectively either jointly with the survivor or otherwise, as the Court may direct.(2) Maternal.--Under the Acts of 1886 and 1925, s. 4, on the death of the father, the mother, if ...
Prostitute
Prostitute, 'prostitute' means a female who offers her body for promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire, whether in money or in kind. State of U.P. v Kaushailiya, AIR 1964 SC 416: (1964) 4 SCR 1002.A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Solicitation by prostitutes is punishable in towns by the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28 (in cases where the town is subject to a special Act incorporating that Act); in London by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54, and generally by the Vagrancy Act, 1824.A licensed retailer of intoxicating liquor permitting his premises to be the habitual resort of reputed prostitutes, whether their object be prostitution or not, is, if he allows them to remain longer than is necessary for the purpose of obtaining reasonable refreshment, liable to a penalty under the Licensing Act, 1910, s. 76.A man who lives on the earnings of prostitution may be dealt with as a 'rogue and a vagabond' by the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended...
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