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Advowson

corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring to the advowson, it is then said to be appendant, i.e., … a corporeal inheritance. While a few advowsons were originally in gross, as when the right originated in an agreement that a builder of a church and his heirs should be its patrons ratione fundationis, yet the greater

Use and occupation, Action for

Use and occupation, Action for, an action for dam-ages upon the case for breach of an implied agreement to pay for the use of a landlord's property under the Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo.

Priority

were swept into this rule, viz., all equitable interests inland (i.e., all estates for less than a fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute and corresponding incorporeal hereditaments (see s. 1 of the … persons, if any, to whom notice must be given and, in their absence, for the indorsement of a memorandum on the trust instrument are provided by the section, see Dearle v. Hall. In regard to mortgages: before

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Separation

21 QBD 424; Sweet v. Sweet, (1895) 1 QB 12. The Court will decree specific performance of an agreement to execute a deed of immediate separation if based upon sufficient consideration, Gibbs v. Harding, (1870) LR 5

Mortgage

1925, and for the effect of the powers of a mortgagee upon sale or foreclosure, over the fee simple or term remaining in the mortgagor and against subsequent incumbrancers, see ss. 88 and 89. A mortgagee, however, … redeemable at anytime; and the creditor not being entitled to sue at law in the absence of a covenant or bond, or to foreclose in equity. When property is conveyed to a mortgagee and his heirs until

Deed

habendum in an appointment under a power or (before 1926) in a covenant to stand seised, or a simple declaration of uses, because such deeds themselves fulfil that office by limiting the estate to be created. (g) … exordium, date and parties. The commencement sets forth its style or character. The date follows in indentures and contracts, but is generally placed in the last or peroration-clause in a deed-poll. In any case, even if there

Customs

it had previously been loaded. The resolutions onwhich the Act was founded amounted to about 3000. A more simple and uniform system was at the same time introduced into the business of the custom-house. These alterations were

debt

the common-law action for the recovery of a specified sum of money or a sum that can be simply and certainly determined called also action of debt writ of debt compare assumpsit, covenant … : something owed: as a : a specific sum of money or a performance due another esp. by agreement (as a loan agreement) [to pay the s…of the United States "U.S. Constitution art. I"] [a for alimony]

League of Nations (Societe des Nations)

at the conclusion of the War of 1914-1919 (First World War), with a membership of 58 States. The Covenant, consisting of 26 Articles at the beginning of each of the Peace Treaties, is its charter, pledging these

Occupancy

Occupancy, mere possession or use either by agreement or otherwise without other claim (if any) to the ownership or enjoyment of property, also taking possession of

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