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Infant

of age or marry, are excluded from the distribution of the residuary estate of an intestate but the statutory powers of advancement and provisions relating to maintenance and accumula-tion of income are to apply, and infants may … of the infant, and can only operate to his prejudice; as a surety-bond, or a release to his guardian. 2nd. Those which are only voidable: such as are beneficial to him, which he may affirm or avoid

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Marriage

P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes … case that the marriage should be solemnised in church; and as to minors, that the father, mother, or guardian shall previously consent to the marriage if by license (see Banns). The Act further abolished the suits in

Adoption

Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 52. In Family Law, means the statutory process of terminating a child's legal rights and duties towards the natural parents and substituting similar rights and … may not adopt a female infant unless the court finds special reasons. The consents of the parents and guardians (if any) and of any other persons having the custody of, or liable to contribute to, the support

Adverse possession

An LT 749. Adverse possession, is a method of acquiring title to real property by possession for a statutory period under certain conditions, esp. a non-permissible use of the land with a claim of right when that … and secondly, the person setting up dispossession may have been holding under the rightful owner's title, e.g., trustees, guardians, bailiffs or agents. Such persons cannot set up possession averse to their cestui que trust, principal or persons

Fraud

dangerous to introduce maxims of common law as to effect of fraud while determining fraud in relation to statutory law. In Pankaj Bhargava [Pankaj Bhargava v. Mohinder Nath, (1991) 1 SCC 556: AIR 1991 SC 1233] it … exercising undue influence over others; such are transactions between parent and child, attorney and client, principal and agent, guardian and ward, trustee and cestui que trust, partners, etc. Others are of a mixed character, combining the ingredients

Trust

a trust cannot be engrafted 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 … relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which postulate the existence of fiduciary relationship between the complainant and the

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