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County palatine

jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster and of the Court of Pleas at Durham is transferred to the High Courtof Justice. But the jurisdiction of the Chancery Courts of these counties is retained [(English) … created by Edward III. The Bishop of Durham and the Duke of Lancaster had royal power within their respective counties. They could pardon treasons, murders, and felonies; they appointed judges and magistrates; all writs and indictments ran

Portiliminium

sway of their original sovereign. Their mere possession in the course of war, does not suffice generally to transfer title or sovereignty as against the enemy owner or sovereign. The rights of the owner of sovereign are … the territory, individuals and property, after having come in time of war under the authority of the enemy, return, either during the war or at its end, under sway of their original sovereign. Their mere possession in

Cost-book mining companies

shares, and with them his liabilities, so far as his partners are concerned, without their consent, either by transfer or simple relinquishment, provided the cost book regulations do not prohibit such a course; in the former case … Cost-book mining companies. The statutory regulations relating to these Companies are contained in the Stannaries Acts, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 19) and

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Exchange, Deed of

Exchange, Deed of [fr. excambium, Lat.], an original Common Law conveyance, for the reciprocal transfer of interests ejusdem generis, as fee simple for fee simple, legal estate for legal estate, copyhold for

Conveyance

Conveyance, an instrument which transfers property from one person to another, defined for the purposes of the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. … Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205, as including 'mortgage charge, lease, assent, vesting declaration, vesting instrument, disclaimer, release and every other assurance of property or of any interest therein by any instrument, except a will.' See

Composition

the original meaning of that expression which -- at least in part -- were not consumed before the transfer to private use, or independently (or additionally) acquired goods, Fisher v. Finanzamt Burgdorf (ECJ), (2002) 2 WLR 1207. … commutation of tithes, e.g., that such lands shall for the future be discharged from payment of tithes, by reason of some land or other real recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Tithe Act,

Administrator

Administrator, means the Administrator as referred to in clause (a) of section 2 of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal)

Impossibility

v. Hastie, (1852) 8 Ex 43 & HLC 673]; but where the contract operating as a transfer of real property, e.g., as a demise, is to do a thing which is possible in itself, but which becomes

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 … and grants.' Prior to the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, the phrase universally adopted in deeds, in order to transfer a fee-simple absolute, was 'to A., his heirs and assigns for ever.' The word 'assigns,' however, was not

Warranty

superseded in practice by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, cc. 27 (s. 39) and 74 (s. 14). See RECOVERY. More generally, a warranty is any agreement either accompanying a transfer of property, or collateral to the contract

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