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Home Dictionary Name: scintillaScintilla juris et tituli
Scintilla juris et tituli [Lat.] (a spark of law and title).A possibility of seisin, which was supposed to exist in the grantee to uses, when all actual seisin was taken from him by the operation of the statute, upon a limitation of springing uses and the creation of contingent ones. 'If land be given to A. and his heirs, to the use of B. and his heirs until the marriage of C., and then to the use of C. and his heirs, here B. immediately becomes tenant in fee by force of the statute; and to give him this estate the whole seisin of A. is exhausted; now the marriage takes effect, and who is seised to the use of C (Burt. Comp., 6th Edn. p. 59).This doctrine of scintilla juris, the knowledge of the exact character of which appears to be rendered unnecessary by s. 7 of the (English) Law of Pro-perty Amendment Act, 1860 (now repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, 7th Sch.), has been warmly contested. Lord Coke admitted it (Chudleigh's case, 1 Co., p. 121 a), so did Mr. Booth (s...
scintilla
scintilla : a small trace or barely perceptible amount of something (as evidence supporting a position) ...
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