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in another man's ship, for their care of the goods over and above the freight. (4) Stubble, or remainder of straw and grass left in cornfields after harvest. In Kent it is called gratten, and in other
Possibility on a possibility
Possibility on a possibility. Lord Coke lays it down as a rule that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on a … on a possibility, which the law will not allow. Thus he tells us that the chance that a man and a woman, both married to different persons, shall themselves marry one another is but a common possibility.
Recovery
recovery is an actual or real recovery of anything, or the value thereof, by judgment; as if a man sue for any land or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment. A feigned … 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, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them, and subsequent charges sub-ordinate to
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Power
in respect to another, a power in gross. Thus where an estate is settled to A. for life, remainder to B. in tail, remainder to A. in fee, and A. has a power to jointure his wife … of others. The word is used as a technical term and is distinct from the dominion which a man has over his own estate by virtue of ownership, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary. Power, is not synonymous with jurisdiction,
Hereditaments
Vol. 39, paras 380-82, p. 266]. The terms signifies 'all such things, whether corporeal or incorporeal [as] a man may have to him and his heirs by way of inheritance, and which, if they be not otherwise … of common and, possibly, easements; (2) certain heritable rights not necessarily connected with land, such as offices. Reversions, remainders, and executory interests and conditions have usually been classed as incorporeal hereditaments, but the classification is not satisfactory.
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
and under s. 2 of the same Act in the case of claimants entitled to particular interests (in remainder, reversion or other future estate or interest) the right to recover land etc., is limited to six years … s. 19, as 'no part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland nor the Islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney and Sark, nor any islands adjacent to them shall be deemed to be beyond the
Uses
1, gave him power to alien what he had; yet the feoffees may still enter to re-vest a remainder or contingent use, which was never published by any record or delivery, whereby the purchaser could know of … with the possession, rents and profits, but was under an obligation to deal with them in a special manner indicated by the feoffor. The indication might be lawful or it might be a special trust unlawful, which
Property
Includes in the case of a wife any property to which she is entitled for an estate in remainder or reversion or as a trustee, executrix or administratix; and the date of the death of the testator … SC 3436. Property, in indicative and descriptive of every possible interest which a party can have, State of Manipur v. Nongthombam Ambu Singh, AIR 1957 Manipur 1. Property, in its most general usage, it denotes ownership of
Executory devise
be void; for wherever a future interest is so limited by devise as to operate as a contingent remainder, such an interest is not an executory devise, but a contingent remainder. Executory Devises have been divided into … to the rules of limitation in conveyances at Common Law. It is only an indulgence allowed to a man's last will and testament, where otherwise the words of the will would be void; for wherever a future
Intestates Estates Act, 1890 (English)
upon the whole of the estate for that term, in addition to her interest and share in the remainder of the estate, 'with interest thereon from the date of the death of the intestate, at 4 per … dying intestate after 1925. See WIDOW. By the Act of 1890 the real and personal estate of every man dying wholly intestate after September 1, 1890, leaving a widow but no issue, is directed to belong to
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