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Settled possession
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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, … defeasible by the entry not only of the reversioner, or remainder-man, when he becomes entitled to enter into possession of the estate but also of the issue-in-tail upon the death of the tenant-in-tail. after 1925 a devise
Bailment
Act, and s. 148 defines 'bailment' to mean the delivery of goods 'upon a contract'. It is well settled that the essence of bailment is possession. It is equally well-settled that a bailment may arise, as in
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Settlement
vesting, the right to possession in such lands is also vested in the State, and thereafter it is settled back with the outgoing proprietor by the operation of law, Brijnandan Singh v. Jamuna Prasad Sahu, AIR 1958
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
and 4thly, when the occupier has acknowledged the plaintiff's title. A person dispossessing persons entitled to possession of settled land did not before 1926 obtain a title free from the claims of remaindermen or the reversioner under
Church
documents, has always been according to that sense (ibid. p. 69). The standard of doctrine and practice is settled by the Thirty-nine Articles (see Articles OF RELIGION) agreed on by convocation in Londin in 1562, and confirmed … the Church. One of the leading senses of the word 'establish' is 'to settle in any privilege or possession, to confirm'; and of the word 'establishment,' 'confirmation of something already done, ratification'; and the use of these
Dignities
now ss. 67 and 75 (5) of the Settled Land Act, 1925. Dignities were originally annexed to the possession of certain estates in land, and created by a grant of those estates; or, at all events, that … an incorporeal hereditament, a dignity was held to be 'land' within the meaning of s. 37 of the Settled Land Act, 1882 [Re Rivett-Carnac, (1885) 30 Ch D 136]. See now ss. 67 and 75 (5) of
Administration
more commonly called 'the Government.' The expression 'administration' in relation to an estate, in law means management and settling of that estate. It is a power to deal with the estate. The evacuee could not take possession
Gavelkind
infant's estate is in possession in fee simple or for a term of years absolute, the estate becomes settled; see S.L. Act, 1925, s. 1, and INFANT. Gavelkind, before A.D. 1066, was the general custom of the
Settled land
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