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Remainder
the same land there may at the same time be an estate in possession, and one estate or several estates in remainder, and an estate in reversion. When the estate in possession is determined, the estate in … by act of parties. it may be granted over, charged, devised, or barred by a prior tenant in tail. Mr. Burton (Comp. Pl. 28) thus indicates the difference between a reversion and a remainder: 'If the gift
Executory devise
devise consists in this, that the first could be barred and destroyed or prevented from taking effect by several different means, although the stringency of this rule was mitigated by the (English) R.P. Act, 1845 (8 & … 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), and s. 130, (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925 (see TAIL), bar the entail, and all remainders, executory devises, and conditional limitations dependent thereupon. See EXECUTORY LIMITATION and CONTINGENT
Estate
condition and circumstance in which an owner stands with regard to his property. The word is used in several senses and may denote either an estate in land; or an estate in property other than land; a … expressing any term at all. (b) Legal, or created by operation of law; they are (a) tenancy in tail after possibility of issue extinct, (b) tenancy by the courtesy of England, (c) tenancy in dower. (C) Estates
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Trust
also divisible into: (1) permanent, when there is a continuing duty to be performed for the benefit of several persons in succession: and (2) temporary, when there is one particular duty only to perform. Again, trusts may … document or a bequest or devise by will pass without the words 'heirs of the body' or 'in tail'; in the case of an executed document, apt words of limitation were necessary [see Re Moncton's Settlement, (1913)
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
interest by any of the others. The same principle is not applicable to an acknowledgement by one of several persons jointly liable. It appears that the acknowledgement of anyone binds them all, Roddam v. Morley, 1 De
Uses
by the Common Law judges of the meaning of this celebrated statute. Requirements of the Statute: There are several circumstances necessary to the execution of uses under the statute, viz.:- (1) A person seised to the use. … statute would execute. (3) A man could not make his own heirs a purchaser, even of an estate tail, for filius est pars patris-h'res est pars antecessoris; but a man might limit the use so as to
Kingbird
of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected Called also bee bird and bee martin Several Southern and Western species of Tyrannus are also called king birds … flycatcher taking various insects upon the wing It is dark ash above and blackish on the bead and tail The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges It is white beneath with a white terminal
Merger
same person. Merger, however, will operate between three or more estates, as well as between two. (2) The several estates must be immediately expectant upon each other; the more remote estate must be without any intervening vested … same time and in the same right' [Re Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the rule; for a man may have in his own right both an
Hotchpot
the fund without bringing his appointed share into hotchpots. As to the construction of such a clause where several funds are settled, see Re Fraser, (1913) 2 Ch 224 and cases there cited, and Trustee Act, 1925,
Copyhold
the tenure, or by refusing to perform the services. Copyholds maybe enfranchised, i.e., converted into free tenure, in several ways:' (1) If the copyholder surrender his estate to the rightful lord, to the use of the lord.
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