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Charitable uses and trusts

s. 29(4), however, provides that assurances of land or personal estate to be laid out in land or separate instruments declaring the charitable trusts executed after 1925 need not be so enrolled, but that they must be

Alimony

her support, either during a matrimonial suit or at its termination, when she proves herself entitled to a separate maintenance, and the fact of a marriage is established. But she is not entitled to it if she … Alimony [fr. alimonia. Lat.], the allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate for her support, either during a matrimonial suit or at its termination, when she proves herself entitled to

Jus relicti

Jus relicti, means 'right of a widower'. A widower's right in his deceased wife's separate movable estate, historically two-thirds if there were surviving children, and otherwise one-half, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

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Sequestration

Chancery and the Courts of Probate and Divorce), addressed to certain commissioners empowering them to enter upon real estates, and sequester the rents, and upon the goods, chattels, and personal estate of a person in contempt for

Consolidation of mortgages

arose where successive mortgages have been created upon the same estate, whereas consolidation arises where there have been separate mortgages on different estates. See TACKING.

Committee of a Person of Unsound Mind or Idiot

of the person and estate, or either, of a person of unsound mind is committed by the Court. Separate committees may be appointed (a) of the person, (b) of the estate, and joint committees may be appointed

Administrative convenience

unsecured claims, to the extent that the separate classification will assist in a more efficient disposition of to estate, as by paying or eliminating the small claims earlier than other claims. 11 (USCA) & 1122(b). … Administrative convenience, in relation to bankruptcy means a provision permitting a bankruptcy plan to have a separate classification for small, unsecured claims, to the extent that the separate classification will assist in a more efficient

divided

owned, possessed, or held : no longer held in indivision [owner of a part or of the entire estate following partition "Louisiana Civil Code"] [granted in portions] 2 : not united : failing to agree [a Court] … divided 1 a : separated into parts, classes, or portions [ coverage] [ custody] b in the civil law of Louisiana : separately

unified transfer tax

see also unified credit NOTE: The unified transfer tax system creates liability for a single tax rather than separate liability for a gift tax and an estate tax.

Bill in Parliament

areas only, as railway construction bills, water or gas supply bills, etc.; or (3) private, as bills settling estate, divorce bills (rendered generally unnecessary by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857), and naturalization bills. All three kinds

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