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Jus dividendi
Jus dividendi [Med. Lat.], the right of disposing of realty by will, Du Cange.
Cross-remainders
expressed n a deed, and should be expressly limited in a will. The broad rule is, that wherever realty is devised to several persons in tail as tenants-in-common, and it appears to be the testator's intention that
accede
: to become added by way of growth, increase, improvement, or labor [the various improvements…had acceded to the realty and had become “fixtures” "Graham v. Henderson, 608 S.W.2d 150 (1980)"] b : to come into control or
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Euclidean zoning
Euclidean zoning [from Village of Euclid, Ohio et al. v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926), case in which the Supreme Court upheld the right of a locality to
Abalienation
Abalienation [fr. Abalieno, Lat.], a making over of realty, goods, or chattels, to another, by due course of law, Civil Law.
Assignment of dower
dower, the ascertaining and setting out by metes and bounds of a widow's portion of her deceased husband's realty for her thirds or dower. As to the rights of the widow until 1926, see Williams v. Thomas,
Borough English
lands and elsewhere, if a person had several sons, and died intestate, the youngest son inherited all the realty, which belonged to his father, situated within such borough. It was based on the assumption that the youngest
Charitable uses and trusts
secured on land and other personal estate arising from or connected with land (which, as 'savouring of the realty' had been held to be within the Act of Geo. 2) may be devised to charitable uses, and
Damages
compensation for a fraud, or for the non-performance of a contract relating to the sale and purchase of realty. This was amended by the (English) Chancery Amendment Act, 1858 (21 & 23 Vict. c. 27), 'Cairns's Act,'
Husband and wife
between an unmarried and a married woman. See MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY. At Common Law, a gift of either realty or personal-ity to a husband and his wife and a third person was construed as a gift to
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