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Shelley's case, Rule in
Shelley's case, Rule in. intimately connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty, is the antique feudal doctrine generally known as the rule in Shelley's Case, which is reported by Lord
Hereditaments
franchises, corodies or pensions, annuities, and rents, 1 Bl. Com. 21. Although the word 'hereditament' applies both to realty and personality, yet it is in a different mode of relation. When applied to realty it generally denotes
Chattels or catals
in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute staple, by
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Personalty
Personalty, personal property-as distinguished from realty, or real property, in the usual sense of the word, freehold or copyhold land or houses; that which
Marriage
Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), recognize them as legitimate so as to inherit realty upon an intestacy, Birtwhisle v. Vardill, (1840) 7 Cl &Fin 895. As to persons legitimated on or after
Middlesex Registration of Deeds
(English) Purchaser Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 78), s. 8, as to non-registration of wills affecting realty in Middlesex; also the (English) Land Registry (Middlesex Deeds) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 64), by
Military testament
Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 58), extends this right to make wills without formalities to realty in the case of the above persons. As t seamen and marines, see also the (English) Navy and
Mixed property
Mixed property, a compound of realty and personalty.
Official assignees
together with the assignee or assignees chosen by the creditors. All the personal estate, the profits of the realty, and the proceeds of all such estates as were sold were received by such official assignees alone, and
Savour
mortgage of real or leasehold property, or a legacy charged on land, was said to 'savour of the realty,' and prior to the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1891, could not be bequeathed to a charity. To
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