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estoppel
contradictory words or acts in asserting a claim or right against another ;esp : equitable estoppel in this entry compare waiver equitable estoppel : an estoppel that prevents a person from adopting a new position that contradicts … silence, or actions when allowing the new position to be adopted would unfairly harm another person who has relied on the previous position to his or her loss called also estoppel in pais NOTE: Traditionally equitable estoppel
Rent
land. It is usually created by deed or will, and was accompanied by express powers of distress and entry. Small rent-charges were frequently granted for the mere purpose of qualifying the grantee for the parlia-mentary franchise, as … Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded
Fee-simple
i.e., on or after the 1st January, 1882. The actual words of limitation given in the Act were required, for a conveyance 'in fee' without the addition of the word 'simple' will not pass the estate [Re
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Apportionment
only. To obviate these difficulties it became usual to insert mutual covenants and cross powers of distress and entry upon severance of land subject to an entire rent charge. These powers have now become statutory and certain … parts (usually unequal) proportioned to the rights of more claimants than one. It is either (1) Apportionment in respect of time, or (2) Apportionment in respect of estate. Apportionment in respect of Time.--At Common Law there is
Under-lease
under-lessee, or under-tenant, or sub-lessee, or sub-tenant, of a part of his whole interest under the original lease, reserving to himself a reversion; it differs from an assignment, which conveys the lessee's whole interest, and passes to
Journal
as of the proceedings of a legislature or the events of a ship's voyage (2) Accounting. In double entry book-keeping, a book in which original entries are re-corded before being transferred to a ledger (3) A periodical … or diary of transactions used by merchants, mariners, tradesmen, etc., in their business. Means (1) A book or record kept usu. daily, as of the proceedings of a legislature or the events of a ship's voyage (2)
agent
carries on union business between the employees and the employer collective bargaining agent : bargaining agent in this entry del cre·de·re agent : an agent that guarantees to his or her principal that third parties involved in … agent 1 : someone or something that acts or exerts power : a moving force in achieving some result 2 : a person guided or instigated by another in some action [where the heads of departments are
Official Log-book
Official Log-book, a log-book in a certain form, and containing certain specified entries required by ss. 239 and 240 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, re-enacting ss. 280-282 of the Merchant … Official Log-book, a log-book in a certain form, and containing certain specified entries required by ss. 239 and 240 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, re-enacting ss. 280-282 of the
Regress, Lettrs of
the wadset or mortgage, the mortgagor was completely divested, and when he redeemed, he appeared to claim an entry from the superior as a stranger, and the superior was no more bound to receive the mortgagor than … Regress, Lettrs of. They were granted by the superior of lands mortgaged to the wadsettor or mortgagor. Their object
Proviso
in any deed, on the performance whereof the validity of the deed depends. As to the proviso for re-entry in a lease, see FORFEITURE (5); CONDITION; USUAL COVENANTS. The terms proviso and condition are synonymous, and signify
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