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Ejectment

Ejectment, the 'mixed' action at Common Law to recover the possession of land (which is real), and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of the land (which are personal). Until abolished by the

trespass

close (tenement protected by law of trespass)] : a trespass that involves wrongful and tortious entry on another's real property trespass to try title : an action brought as a means of obtaining redress for a trespass

Entry

determination of disabilities, provided it be not more than thirty (formerly forty) years in the whole. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), repealing and replacing s. 2 of the Real … But upon a discontinuance or deforcement, the owner of the estate cannot enter, but is driven to his action; for herein the original entry being lawful, and thereby an apparent right of possession being gained, the law

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Institutions

Civil Law. Title II. explains the second Division of Things, which are either corporeal or incorporeal: and here real or personal services, as being incorporeal things, are treated of. The modes of acquisition introduced by the Civil … eighteen; in all, ninety-nine titles. First, it is to be observed that the division is triple--Persons, Tings, and Actions--under which the subject-matter of the four books of the Institutes is comprised. The first book treats of the

Property

SC 564: 1970 (2) SCC 248. (See also Constitution of India, Entry 42, List III) Includes right to realise debt due to dissolved firm from third party, Baba Commercial Syndicate v. Chennamesetti, AIR 1986 AP 378. Property, … Property, an actionable claim against the tenants is undoubtedly a species of property which is assignable, State of Bihar v. Kameshwar

Real representative

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Tail

whom the estate-tail would (if unbarred) have devolved, and a recovery at the Common Law (which was a real action carried onto judgment), giving the fee-simple absolute. these were abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833, here

Quarrel

Quarrel, a dispute, contest; also, an action real or personal. Means an altercation or angry dispute; an exchange of recriminations, taunts, threats, or accusations between two

Writ

sentences of the courts. For the particular writs, see their distinctive names, as assistance, capias, etc. The (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833, abolished all writs in real and mixed actions (except in dower unde nihil habet, … as assistance, capias, etc. The (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833, abolished all writs in real and mixed actions (except in dower unde nihil habet, quare impedit or ejectment), expressly naming sixty abolished writs (e.g., the writ

Deceit

of deceit, which was an action brought in the Common Pleas to reverse a judgment obtained in any real action, by fraud or collusion between the parties to the prejudice of the right of a third person. it

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