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Settled land

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Preeumlmpt

To settle upon public land with a right of preemption as under the laws of the United States to take

Tail

of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466. An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1] With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, … the property are sufficiently declared. Subject to his powers and duties as tenant for life under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, if a tenant-in-tail grant the fee-simple in the property to another person and his heirs without

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Marriage settlement

(English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1926), are settlements within the meaning of s. 1 of the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, and must be effected by two instruments: (a) the vesting deed, and (b) the trust instrument; … (a) the conveyance on trust for sale, and (b) the trust instrument; see TRUST INSTRUMENT and VESTING DEED; SETTLED LAND. Before 1926, marriage settlements were of different kinds, according as the property settled consisted of real or personal

Money land

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Trust for sale

and without participation of beneficiaries whose consent was not required, thus providing an expedient, which, together with the Settled Land Acts and other statutes giving analogous powers to mortgagees, personal representatives and trustees in bankruptcy, provided a model … (s. 27); the trustees are to have all the relative powers of a tenant for life under the Settled Land Act, 1925, and land conveyed to them in exercise of those powers must be to them in exercise

Heirloom

Portman v. Viscount Portman, 1922, AC 473, and cases there referred to. The 37th s. of the (English) Settled Land Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 38), provided that 'where personal chattels are settled on trust so … with as 'capital money' under the Act. This s. has been replaced by s. 67 of the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, with amendments in keeping with s. 130, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, which enables an

Vesting instrument

Vesting instrument, a deed, order of Court, or assent, constituting the evidence under the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, of the title of a tenant for life or statutory owner to the legal estate in … essential for the settlement of a legal estate in land otherwise than by way of trust for sale (Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 4). The trusts are (after 1925) to be declared by a separate instrument called the

Undivided shares in land

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Improvement of land

Matched in: Term Improvement of land

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