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Reserve

To set apart for some purpose or with some end in view; to keep for some use. To retain or preserve for certain purposes.' (Oxford Dictionary). In Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, page 2118, 'Reserve' is

trust

the settlor's tax rate because the settlor has the power to control the beneficial enjoyment of the trust, retains a reversionary interest in the trust, has administrative powers over the trust, has the power to revoke the

Follower

One who follows a pursuer an attendant a disciple a dependent associate a retainer

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retain

: to keep in one's pay or service ;specif : to employ (as a lawyer) by paying a retainer

Affidatus

Affidatus, a tenant by fealty, a retainer, Blount.

Name

it by repute obliterating her name by marriage, see Fendall v. Goldsmid, (1877) 2 PD 263. As to retainer of a title, see Cowley v. Cowley, 1901 AC 450. Any one may take on himself whatever surname

Mandatum

Mandatum, a fee or retainer given by the Romans to the procuratores and advocati. Mandatum is also used in the sense of a

Lien

by action. (4) In what manner a lien may be enforced. There is but a mere right of retainer, which may be used as a defence to an action for the recovery of the property, or as

Folgere

Folgere, a freeman who has no house or dwelling of his own, but is the follower of retainer of another (heorthf'st), for whom he performs certain predial services, Anc. Inst. Eng.

Executor

estates by the rules of bankruptcy, s. 34 and Sched. I., Part I., (English) A.E. Act, 1925. See RETAINER OF DEBTS. (7) The executor may, even after action commenced by an adverse creditor and at any time

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