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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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