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Release

disseisor, his heir, or grantee. Words of limitation are not necessary, since the subject of transfer is a simple right, which once discharged is for ever extinguished, and not an estate which may be qualified or restricted.

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken. In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other

Merger

Property Act, 1925, a foreclosure by a mortgagee will merge the mortgage term into and vest the fee simple in the mortgagee subject to any prior mortgage term, and a similar consequence, mutatis mutandis, follows upon foreclosure

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Fee

Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or...

battery

weapon b : criminal battery committed on a protected person (as a minor or a police officer) compare simple battery in this entry NOTE: Aggravated battery is usually classified as a felony. sex·u·al battery : intentional and

assault

a criminal assault accompanied by the intent to commit or the commission of a felony (as rape) compare simple assault in this entry assault with intent : a criminal assault committed with the intent to commit another

Larceny

personal, with intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same. Larceny is a felony, and is either simple or accompanied with circumstances of aggravation: (1) Simple larceny at Common Law, or plain theft. To constitute the

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commodity'. But that meaning would be out of context for interpreting the word in this Act for the simple reason that where a word has not been defined in the Act its meaning has to be gathered

Manor

1925, s. 205 (1) (ix)] The (English) land legislation of 1925 has not disturbed the property in fee simple or many valuable rights which are or may be incident to a manor, such as mines, minerals, lime,

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,

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