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Portion

the children or issue, either immediately or after the death of the parent or parents. In regard to realty the usual plan was to settle a long term of years from or out of the real estate

Possibility on a possibility

650]. It gave rise, however, to the rule, now well settled in regard to limitations and trusts of realty created by instruments coming into operation before 1926, but abolished in regard to those created by instruments coming

Prescription

c. i., s. 4, p. 421. There are two kinds of prescription, viz.: (1) negative, which relates to realty or corporeal hereditaments, whereby an uninterrupted possession for a given time gives the occupier a valid and unassilable

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Property

(1) SCJ 16: 1969 Cr LJ 271. Property is of three sorts: absolute, qualified, and possessory. Property in realty is acquired by entry, conveyance, descent, or devise; and in personalty, by many ways, but most usually by

Real representative

12), all the personal representatives or all the proving executors are to join in a conveyance either of realty or chattels real, and [s. 5 (21)] without prejudice to the rights and powers of a personal representative,

Remainder

as equitable interests, and in that manner they can be created in respect of personality as well as realty. The follow-ing explanation of legal remainders has been retained as relating to titles to land existing before 1926,

Larceny

them, is a sufficient asportation or carrying away. It must be of personal goods, and not of the realty or things adhering thereto, or savouring thereof. The taking and carrying away must be with intent to deprive

Sufferance, Tenancy at

Sufferance, Tenancy at. This is the least and lowest estate which can subsist in realty. It is in strictness not an estate, but a mere possession only it arises when a person after

Local actions

action might be supposed to take place anywhere, but when they were brought for anything in relation to realty, they were then local, see Mostyn v. Fabrigas, (1775) 1 Smith, L.C., and 2 Chit. Arch. Prac. And

Emblements

being affixed to the soil, they might for some purposes be considered, whilst growing, as part of the realty. The growing crop annually produced by labour, as opposed to a crop naturally, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,

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