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Tabula in naufragio

Tabula in naufragio [Lat.] (a plank in a shipwreck). See TACKING; ATTENDANT TERM.

Priority

obtained priority by the order in date of their mortgages, subject to the application of the doctrine of tacking or to equitable reasons (if any) for the postponement of their mortgages:- After 1926 subsisting and future mortgages

Notice

not only the first but all subsequent legal mortgages of a legal estate are now legal estates, and tacking or getting in the legal estate by a subsequent mortgagee and squeezing out an intervening mortgagee has been

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Equity of redemption

mortgagee, who, having advanced his money without notice of such prior mortgage, afterwards acquired the legal estate. See TACKING, which, though abolished by the (English) Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 78), s.

Boxhaul

To put a vessel on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards

Boxhauling

A method of going from one tack to another See Boxhaul

lateen sail

of its length from the lower end to a low mast this end being brought down at the tack while the other end is elevated at an angle or about forty five degrees used in small boats

Laveer

To beat against the wind to tack

Agistment

Agistment [fr. jacere,:at.; gesir, Fr., to lie, whence giste, a lodging], the taking in of other men's cattle into pasture-land, at a certain rate per week, without letting them the land for their exclusive use as...

Farm or ferm

messuage, land, meadow, pasture, wood, common, etc. In Lancashire a farm was called fermholt; in the north, a tack; and in Essex, a wike, Termes de la Ley.

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