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Inheritance

substitute. To this extent, and in this fiction, it may be said that legal personality of a man survives his natural personality; until his obligations being duly per-formed, and his property duly disposed of, his representation among … a less remote male maternal ancestor and her heirs, Williams' Real Property; Watkins on Descents; Sugden's Real Property Statutes. (9) Where there shall be a total failure of heirs of the purchaser, or where any lands shall

Abatement

not become abated by marriage, death or bankruptcy of any of the parties if the cause of action survives, but in any of such cases the Court or a judge may order the successor in interest to … be abated, that is, taken away or removed, by urban sanitary authorities and other public bodies under various statutes (see, e.g., (English) Public Health Act, 1936, consolidating and repealing similar provisions in previous (English) Public Health Acts;

Power

persons in whom the legal interest is vested; or (3) declarations or directions deriving their effect from the Statute of Uses. A power given before 1926 by a will to A., an executor, to sell an estate, … 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.

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