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Married women's property
his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in … Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage,
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Husband and wife
was converted to joint tenancies upon trust for sale, and by s. 184, ibid., in cases where the survival of either husband or wife after the death of the other is uncertain, the younger shall be deemed … the wife; and the statute law has, by s. 1 of the Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors Act), 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 30), almost completely abolished the property distinction between an unmarried and
Power
the power. A power given to two or more jointly annexed to an office, e.g., a trust, will survive to the other or others after the death of one of the donees [(English) Trustee Act, 1925, s.
Law Reform (UK)
Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his
Lapse
devisee or legatee should be a child or other issue of the testator, and should die leaving issue surviving at the testator's death, then, by s. 33 of the Wills Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
to husband and wife, and their issue, male or female, if either of them die without issue, the survivor is tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct; and even if there have been issue, yet if the issue … not into a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct, because their estate has been altered by their own act, and not by the act of God. Such a tenancy can endure only for the life of the
Presumption of survivorship
Presumption of survivorship. Where two or more persons perish by the same calamity, the Civil Law presumes that the stronger survived. … the stronger survived. The common law of England recognized no such presumption, but by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 184, in all questions affecting title to property upon deaths in similar circumstances after 1925, the
Guardianship
right to appoint a guardian by deed or will to act after death respectively either jointly with the survivor or otherwise, as the Court may direct. (2) Maternal.--Under the Acts of 1886 and 1925, s. 4, on
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