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Springing use

Springing use, a form of use in the nature of an executory interest directing property inland to vest at a future period which does not coincide with the termination of a legal estate at common law, for instance. In conveyances before 1926, upon a grant by X. To B. to the use of A. (an infant) in fee attaining twenty-one years of age, the use results to the settlor until, if ever, the period arrives and a good legal estate was conferred upon A. attaining that age by virtue of the statute. The use may be contingent as in that case, or vested, as grant to B. to the use of A. in fee upon the death of C., a stranger. If the grant defeats a previous legal estate and is not capable of being construed as a vested or contingent remainder, it may operate as a shifting use. Springing and shifting uses were resorted to in order to facilitate freedom of grant or conveyance of the legal estate inland by virtue of the Statute of Uses. Grants which would have created springing or shifting uses if the...


Special trust

Special trust, where the machinery of a trust is introduced for the execution of some purpose particularly pointed out, and the trustee is not a mere passive depositary of the estate, but is called upon to exert himself actively in the execution of the settlor's intention; as where a conveyance is made to trustees upon trust to sell for payment of debts. See USES....


Simple trust

Simple trust: where property is vested in one person upon trust for another, and the nature of the trust, not being qualified by the settlor, is left to the construction of law. In this case the cestui que trust has jushabendi, or the right to be put into actual possession of the property, Jusdisponendi, or the right to call upon the trustee to execute conveyances of the legal estate as the cestui que trust directs. See BARE TRUSTEE and Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 3 (3), and Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 7 (5), enabling a person entitled to a legal estate to have it conveyed to him, and also L.P. Act, 1925, 1st Sch., Part II., par. (3), as amended by the L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, vesting the estate existing on 1st January, 1926, in the beneficial owner by force of the statute....


Settlement

Settlement, means an agreement ending a dispute or a law suit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377.Settlement, suggests that, in the process of 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 Pat 589.Settlement, the act of giving possession by legal sanction; a jointure granted to a wife; a disposition of either real or personal property or both for the benefit of one person for his life, and after his death for the benefit of another person absolutely, or with a similar ultimate devolution for the use of several persons in succession after the person first named. See last title, and SETTLEMENT ESTATE DUTY.The conveyance of property -- or of interests in property -- to provide for one or more beneficiaries, usu. members of settlor's family in a way that differs from what the beneficiaries would receive as heirs under ...


Restraint on alienation

Restraint on alienation. Although conditions in restraint of alienation of an absolute interest in possession in either real or personal property are generally void on the ground of repugnancy [see Re Dugdale, (1888) 38 Ch D 176, and RE-PUGNANT], gifts of a life estate or of income or apparently of a reversionary interest, Churchill v. Marks, (1844) 1 Coll 441, until alienation or charging, are permissible, if there is a gift over and the gift is properly expressed [see Re Mabbett, (1891) 1 Ch 707, and Trustee Act, 1925, s. 33]. A settlement upon himself by a settlor determining his estate upon bankruptcy is void. As to alienation of advowson, see Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 48), and ADVOWSONS. As to church property, see Halsb. Laws of England, tit. 'Ecclesiastical Law,' and as to married woman, see ANTICIPATION.A restriction, usu. in a deed of conveyance, on a grantee's ability to sell or transfer real property; a provision that conveys an interest and that, even after inter...


Portion

Portion, property settled or provided in favour of children or their issue. In settlements by deed or will of personal property, portions were and are usually effected by direct trusts in favour of the children or issue, either immediately or after the death of the parent or parents. In regard to realty the usual plan was to settle a long term of years from or out of the real estate upon trust to sell or mortgage the term in order to provide the portions when they became payable. See SATISFIED TERM; ATTENDANT TERM. This term preceded the settlement of the estate in fee or in tail according to the intention of the settlor. This method is still available although the term is not a legal estate and will not affect a purchaser even with notice who takes his title from estate owners who are entitled to sell the estate unaffected by the term, but the trustees entitled to the term may require to have the term secured by a legal mortgage. See Law of Property Act, s. 3 (1) and Settled Land Act,...


Accounts duties

Accounts duties. Duties first made payable by the (English) Customs & Inland Revenue Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. C. 12), s. 38, at the same rates as the Probate Duties, upon a donatio mortis causa (q.v.); upon the gift inter vivos of a donor dying within three months; on joint property voluntarily so created and taken by survivorship; and on property taken under a voluntary settlement in which the settlor had reserved a life interest. These duties were in name superseded by the 'Estate Duty' imposed by the (English) Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. C. 30), the property chargeable under the (English) Customs & Inland Revenue Act, 1881, s. 38, being included in the classes of property deemed by the (English) Finance Act, 1894, to 'pass' by death and thus chargeable with the new 'Estate Duty' and the original provisions affecting gifts inter vivos, voluntary settlements, etc., have been considerably amended by subsequent legislation. See ESTATE DUTY....


Custodian trustee

Custodian trustee, a trustee appointed under the Public Tustee Act, 1906, s. 4, to hav the custody as distinct from the management of the trust estate. The appointment may be made by the Court or the settlor or the donee of the power of appointing new trustees, but the only persons eligible are the Public Trustee, or some banking or insurance company or other body corporate entitled by the rules made under the Act to act as custodian trustee, e.g., (English) Public Trustee (Custodian Tustee Rules,1926 (S. R. & O. 1926, No. 1423/L. 37). See Re Cherry's Trusts, (1914) 1 Ch 83, and TRUST CORPORATION....


Curtesy of England

Curtesy of England [jus curialitatis Angli', Lat.], an estate which by favour of the law of England arises by act of law, and is that interest which a husband has for his life in his wife's fee-simple or fee-tail estates, generalor special, aftr her death.Tenancy by the curtesy has been abolished by the (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 45, with regard to the inheritance of every person dying after 1925, but undr s. 130, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, curtesy will arise as an equitable interest in any property realor personal as an incident to an equitable intrest in-tail and in default of a disentailing assurance or the exercise of the testamentary power conferred by that Act, see sub-s. 4 ibid., and see the 12th Schedule to the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, in regrd to enfranchised copyholds.There are six circumstances necessary to the existence of this estate (which appears to be unaffected by the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882):--(1) A canonicalor legal marriage.(2) Seisin of the w...


Covenant

Covenant [fr. Covenant, Fr.], any agreement, convention, or promise of two or more parties, by deed in writing, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which either of the parties pledges himself to the other that something is either done or shall be done, or stiuplates for the truth of certain facts. He who thus promises is called the covenantor; and he to whom it is made the covenantee. A covenant being part of a deed is subject to the general rules for the construction of such instruents; as, first, to be always taken most strongly against the covenanter and most in favour of the covenantee; secondly, to be taken according to the intent of the parties; thirdly, to be construed ut res magis valeat quam pereat; fourthy, when no time is limited for its performance, that it be performed in a reasonable time.Covenants are personal obligations; formerly the did not bind theheirs of the covenanter unless the heirs were named and inthat case only to the extent of the lands descended, but if made ...



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