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Merger

immediately expectant upon each other; the more remote estate must be without any intervening vested estate or contingent remainder created in the same instant of time and by the same means which originated the other estate; and

Enlarger 1'estate

conveyance of the ulterior interest to the particular tenant; as if there be tenant for life or years, remainder to another in fee, and he in remainder releases all his right to the particular tenant and his

worthier title

his or her heirs, the conveyance is deemed to create a reversion in the grantor rather than a remainder, so that the heirs take by descent and receive a superior title than that which would have been

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Intrusion

the entry of a stranger after a particular estate of freehold is determined before him in reversion or remainder. Where a tenant for life dies seized of certain lands or tenements, and a stranger enter thereon after

Marriage settlement

frequently settled on the husband or the wife, according to the source of the property, for life, with remainder to the first and other sons in tail with remainder to the daughters in tail, the limitations formerly

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

Pretensed right

the vendor had received the profits, or been in possession of the land, or of the reversion or remainder, for one whole year, on pain that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value of such

Posthumous child

as if born in its father's lifetime, although there be no limitation to trustees to preserve the contingent remainder to such child. See EN VENTRE SA MERE.

Personal property

to a life interest merely, and that B. had during the life of A. a vested interest in remainder of which he could dispose at his pleasure; and if the property consisted of moveable goods, A. could

Particular estate

is granted or carved out of a larger estate, which then becomes an expectancy either in reversion or remainder. See 3 Prest. Conv. 169.

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