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Disposition
SC 1935: (1977) 1 SCR 9. The term 'disposition' has been defined in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary as a devise 'intended to comprehend a mode by which property can pass, whether by act of parties or by an … (1726). [Gift-tax Act, 1958, s. 2(xxiv)] A contract for the sale of land a disposition, it being a specifically identified disposition, Bayoumi v. Women's is Abstinenee Union Ltd. (Ch D), (2003) Ch LR 283. Carried out by
Joint-tenancy
freehold in joint-tenants was so entire that they could not grant, nor bargain and sell, nor surrender or devise to each other, much less exchange with or enfeoff one another; the proper mode of assurance from one … title. A covenant to sell by a joint-tenant severs the estate in mere equity, provided it can be specifically performed, but not at law. (3) By accession of interest, either by one joint-tenant purchasing the interest of
Trust
upon a will unless by a testamentary or codicillary paper executed with the statutory formalities, but if a devise or bequest of the legal estate be accompanied with any mala fides in the devisee or legatee, as … inflicting a hardship on persons peculiarly entitled to protection, the voluntary agreement will in such a case be specifically executed, and see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 172 (3). The rule is to carry into
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Trust for sale
unless they elected to take the property as realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to the heir-at-law, Ackroyd v. Smithson, (1780) 1 Bro
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