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Separate property

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separate property

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separation agreement

separation agreement : a contractual agreement setting forth terms pertaining to property, child support, or other matters in the

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Married women's property

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Common stock or common hotchpot

stock or common hotchpot, the doctrine of throwing into common stock inevitably postulates that the owner of a separate property is a coparcener who has an interest in the coparcenary property and desires to blend his separate propertyseparate property is a coparcener who has an interest in the coparcenary property and desires to blend his separate property with the coparcenary property. The existence of a coparcenary is absolutely necessary before a coparcener can throw into

Separate estate

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Husband and wife

1882, which enacted that a wife was to continue liable for such debts to the extent of her separate property, but that a husband was liable for them to the extent of property acquired by him from his … (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51). The maintenance of the husband by the wife out of her separate property is provided for by s. 14 of the Poor Law Act, 1930. At Common Law the husband was

transmutation

transmutation 1 : a doctrine in property law which allows the conversion of a separate property interest into marital or community property by agreement between spouses or by contribution of marital or community assets … marital or community property by agreement between spouses or by contribution of marital or community assets to the separate property (as for maintenance or improvements) ;also : a doctrine in property law which allows the conversion of a

Partition

is necessary is a definite and unequivocal indication of intention by a member of a joint family to separate himself from the family. The further requirement is that this unequivocal intention to separate must be to the … Mys 72. Is the determination of shares of the coparceners in the joint family. Actual division of the property by metes and bounds is not necessary to constitute partition, Girija Nandi Devi v. Bijendra Narain Chowdhary, AIR

Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance

was required, unless her title thereto had accrued since 1882, or unless she was entitled thereto for her separate use to comply with the formalities prescribed by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 … Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance. If, before 1st January, 1925 [see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167], a woman married before 1883 disposed of her estate or interest in lands or

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