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Allowance

accordingly. Super-tare is an additional allowance or tare where the commodity or package exceeds a certain weight. The remainder, after the allowance of tare, is called the suttle weight; but if treat be allowed, the remainder is

Conditional limitation

Conditional limitation partakes of the nature both of a condition and a remainder. At the Common Law whenever either the whole fee or a particular estate, as an estate for life

Perpetuity

AIR 1967 SC 744: (1967) 1 SCR 293. Is a future limitation, whether executory or by way of remainders, and of either real or personal property which is not to vest until after the expiration of, or

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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

Particular tenants, Alienation by

a greater estate that the law entitled them to make a forfeiture ensued to the person in immediate remainder or reversion. As if a tenant for his own life alienated by feoffment for the life of another

Reliqua

Reliqua, means the remainder of a debt after balancing or liquidating an account; money left unpaid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Quasi-entail

to the grantee and the heirs of his body. And such estate may also be granted with a remainder thereon during the life of the cestui que vie; and the alienation of the quasi tenant-in-tail will bar

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

Notice to quit

limited power of leasing, which exceeded his power, was void, and not capable of being confirmed by the remainder-man, but the remainder-man received money as rent after the death of the tenant for life, it was held

Extinguishment

life make a greater estate than he is warranted in granting, as a lease to A. for life, remainder to B. and his heirs, and I release to A., this extinguishes my right to the reversion, and

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