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Redemption

CIT, AIR 1961 SC 487 (492): (1961) 2 SCR 598. The act or an instance of reclaiming or regaining possession by paying a specific price, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Recovery

abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, … Recovery, the obtaining a thing by judgment or trial. The regaining or restoration of something lost or taken away, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280. A true recovery

Dower

marriage portion. Dotarium, M. Lat., dotaire, Prov.; douaire, Fr.; a dowry of marriage provision; douairiere, a widow in possession of her portion, a dowager], the right which a wife has in the third part of the lands … 1925 in case the deceased husband was a lunatic or defective on January 1st, 1925, and died without regaining testamentary capacity or before his committee or receiver was discharged, see (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 45(1)(c) and

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Limitation of actions and prosecutions

recover land etc., is limited to six years from the time when the estate shall have vested in possession or twelve yeas from the date when the right first accrued to the person whose interest was determined, … is a discontinuance, i.e., interim during which no one enters or is paid the rent, the rightful owner regains his cause of action until a statutory limitation is completed against him from the date of the fresh

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