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trust

under which any or all income does not have to be distributed and principal may be distributed compare simple trust in this entry constructive trust 1 : an implied trust imposed by a court to prevent the … compare passive trust in this entry alimony trust : a trust created often in accordance with a separation agreement in which property is transferred to the trust as a source of support for a divorced spouse with

Registration of title of land

or over-reached without onerous formalities do not affect such purchasers; (c) the method of conveyance or charge is simple; (d) subject to the statutory provisions, registration guarantees the title to purchasers for value and mortgagees. It should

Law

All the rules of conduct established and enforced by the authority. Webster American Dictionary, p. 808. Is an agreement between a native ruler and a company executing the company taxes and action, is not law, Bengal N.C.

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Copyhold

where leases for lives of years were perpetually renewable by custom the tenure in converted into a free simple, (English) Law of Properties Act, 1922, s. 135. Under s. 145 of the (English) Law of Properties Act, … legal or equitable; or by the alienation of the copyhold lands by the husband, or even by an agreement to convey, or by forfeiture, or by a grant of the freehold by the lord to the husband

Uses

performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality. It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people. Hence ingenuity was … its consequences have been explained thus: There are three conveyances, viz., appointment to uses, bargain and sale, and covenant to stand seised where there is no transmutation or change of possession but only a use raised in

Joint-tenancy

Act, 1925, ss. 34 et seq.], assignees in bankruptcy, and others, though they differ in some respects from simple joint-tenants. Before 1926 there might be a joint-tenancy for life, or in fee, or in remainder, but not … conveying it away to a third person, for this is a destruction of the unity of title. A covenant to sell by a joint-tenant severs the estate in mere equity, provided it can be specifically performed, but

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