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Primer seisin

of the lands, if they were in immediate possession; and half a year's profits, if they were in reversion, expectant on an estate for life. It was incident to socage-tenants in capite, as well as those who

Justices

customary tenure, in fee, for life, or a given term, of the yearly value of 100l., or a reversion or remainder expectant upon such lease as in the Act mentioned, with reserved rents of the clear yearly

Priority

but not mortgages of life interests or of an undivided share or of an estate in remainder or reversion were transformed into legal mortgages. Consequently the former rules of equity, based on the rule of equity 'qui

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Property

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 or intestate

Quid Juris clamat

the custos brevium of the Common Pleas before it was engrossed: it lay for the grantee of a reversion or a remainder, when the particular tenant would not attorn, Reg. Jud. 571.

Real representative

the statutory power [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 176] devolve upon the personal representative. An entailed interest or reversion or remainder thereto which was not disposed of by will does not devolve upon them, nor does the

Reditus siccus

Reditus siccus, a rent seck, or barren, the owner of which has neither seigniory nor reversion, nor any express power of distress reserved to him. See RENT.

Release

of action (see SURETY CON-SIDERATION); also a Common Law conveyance of a larger estate, or a remainder, or reversion to one already in possession, the operative verb in which is 'release'; hence the name. It operates or

Reversio terr' est tanquam terra revertens in possessione donatori, sive h'redibus suis post donum finitum

terr' est tanquam terra revertens in possessione donatori, sive h'redibus suis post donum finitum. Co. Litt. 142 b.-(A reversion of land is, as it were, the return of the land to the possession of the donor or

Reversionary

Reversionary, that which is to be enjoyed in reversion. Unconscionable bargains for the sale of reversionary interests may be

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