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Chancery

raising of portions or other charges on land; sale and distribution of proceeds of property subject to a lien or charge; execution of trusts, charitable or private; rectification, setting aside, or cancelling deeds or other written instruments;

Incumbrance

Incumbrance, a claim, lien, or liability attached to property; as a mortgage, a registered judgment, etc. This is the sense in which

Bare trustee

has the exclusive right to direct how it shall be dealt with subject to satisfying any outstanding charge, lien or other right of the trustee to resort to it for the payment of duty, taxes, costs or

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Limitation of actions and prosecutions

creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4,

Entering short

entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have upon them.

Contract for sale of land

purchaser as a rule is accountable for interest on the unpaid price. See further CONDITIONS OF SALE, VENDORS LIEN, NOTICE, LAND CHARGES.

Revendication

of some commercial countries, a right is reserved to the vendor to retake them, or he has a lien upon them for the price, if unpaid: and in other countries he possesses a right of stoppage in

Agistment

the Royal Forest and to collect the money due for it. Agistment does not include a right of lien, Chapman v. Allen, 1631 Cro Car 271. Agistment of sea banks [terr' agitat', Lat.] is where lands are

Receivers certificate

preservation of the assets held by him as for operating a railroad Receivers certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets prior to that of bonds or other securities

Incumbrancer

One who holds an incumbrance or some legal claim lien or charge on an estate

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