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Tacking

Tacking. Before 1926 the law was that, 'if a third mortgagee buys in the first mortgage, though it be pendente lite, pending a bill brought by the second mortgagee to redeem the first, yet the third mortgagee having obtained the first mortgage and got the law on his side, and equal equity, he shall thereby squeeze out the second mortgagee', Brace v. Duchess of Marlborough, (1728) 2 P Wms 491, per Jekyll, M.R. This process was called 'tacking.' But the third mortgagee could not tack unless he made his original advance without notice of the mesne incumbrance: see Marsh v. Lee, (1669) 2 Vent 337; 1 Ch Cas 162; 1 W&TLC. The tacking mortgagee gained this right by virtue of his legal title under the first mortgage, and by the operation of the rule that where the equities (as those under the second and third mortgage) are equal the law shall prevail. 'Tacking' must not be confounded with 'consolida-tion' of mortgages. See that title.By the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874, s. 7, tacking was abo...


tack

tack : to combine (a use, possession, or period of time) with that of another esp. in order to satisfy the statutory time period for acquiring title to or a prescriptive easement in the property of a third party [successive adverse users in privity with prior adverse users can successive adverse possessions of land "Hall v. Kerlee, 461 S.E.2d 911 (1995)"] ...


Tack

Tack, a lease or contract of location; also an addition, supplement; also cattle taken in by a tenant on agistment.To add one's own period of land possession to a prior possessor's period to establish continuous adverse possession for statutory period, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1465.Means to combine (a use, possession or period of time) with that of another especially in order to satisfy the statutory time period for acquiring title to or a prescriptive easement in the property of a third party, Hall v. Kerlee, 461 S.E. 2d 911 (1995)....


Tack duty

Tack duty, rent reserved upon a lease....


Further advance, or charge

Further advance, or charge, a second or subsequent loan of money to a mortgagor by a mortgagee, either upon the same security as the original loan was advanced upon, or an additional security, Equity considers the arrears of interest on a mortgagee security converted into principal, by agreement between the parties, as a further advance.Although the tacking of a third or subsequent mortgage has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 94, that s. has expressly preserved the right to tack a further advance by a prior mortgage so that the advance may rank in priority to subsequent mortgages, even if the further advance was made with notice of a subsequent mortgage or charge in cases where the mortgage imposes an obligation to make further advances. Where the mortgage is to secure a current account or any other further advances, notice of an intervening charge will postpone the further advance to that charge but (by way of exception) in this case notice will not be imputed to t...


Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884

Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884 (English) (47 & 48 Vict. c. 54), consolidating and amending the Acts relating to the registration of deeds, wills, and other assurances (see the wide meaning of the term in s. 3 of the Act of 1884) in the North (8 Geo. 2, c. 6), East (6 Anne, c. 2), and West (2 & 3 Anne, c. 4, and 6 Anne, c. 20) Ridings of the County of York, for the purpose of giving them priority according to the date of registration irrespectively of notice aliunde (s. 14) (see NOTICE); and Battison v. Hobson, (1896) 2 Ch 403; Gresham Assurance Society v. Crowther, (1915) 1 Ch 214.By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 11:(1) It shall not be necessary to register a memorial of any instrument made after the commencement of this Act in any local deeds registry unless the instrument operates to transfer or create a legal estate or to create a charge thereon by way of legal mortgage; nor shall registration of a memorial of any instrument not required to be registered affect any prior...


Puisne mortgage

Puisne mortgage. In the legal phraseology which was used before 1926 meant a mortgage sub-sequent to the mortgage of a legal estate, but for the purposes of the Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10 (1) (Class C.), it is enacted that 'puisne mortgage' means any legal mortgage (including the first) of a legal estate not being a mortgage protected by a deposit of documents relating to the legal estate affected and (if the whole of the land affected is within the jurisdiction of a local deeds registry) not registered there. These mortgages, if created after 1925, must be registered at the Land Charges Registry, Red Lion Square, or they will lose priority; see, further, MORTGAGE CHARGE. Mortgages created before 1926 may be registered before transfer. This amounts to notice, but even this notice will not prevent tacking on further advances by a prior mortgagee if that mortgagee has not seen the register at the date of the first advance or has no other actual or direct notice. See TACKING.Under the ...


Consolidation of mortgages

Consolidation of mortgages. When different pro-perties are mortgaged by the same mortgage or to the same mortgagee for different debts, it was formerly the right of the mortgagee to refuse to allow the mortgagor to redeem one of the mortgages without also redeeming the others, the effect being to throw the whole of the debts on the whole of the properties and thus 'consolidate' the mortgages. This right of the mortgagee was an application of the maxim, 'He who seeks equity must do equity'; it was not considered fair to the mortgagee to allow the mortgagor to pay off one mortgage, which perhaps was well secured, and leave the mortgagee with another mortgage on his hands which might be very insufficiently secured. But though the doctrine was not unfair or unreasonable as originally applied, it came to be extended to cases where, owing to devolutions of title having taken place, its application was manifestly unjust, and attempts were made by the Courts to limit its exercise. Finally, the...


Bumkin

A projecting beam or boom as a One projecting from each bow of a vessel to haul the fore tack to called a tack bumpkin b One from each quarter for the main brace blocks and called brace bumpkin c A small outrigger over the stern of a boat to extend the mizzen...


Clubhaul

To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails which brings the vessels head to the wind and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency...


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