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Disentailing Deed

Wm. 4, c. 74), a tenant-in-tail can bar his estate tail by disposing of the land for an estate in fee

Lyre bird

genus Menura The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and when spread arranged in the form

Curtesy of England

A condition to restrain the husband of a feme-donee in tail from curtesy is repugnant and void, Co. Litt. 224 a.

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Pintail

of both continents The adult male has a long tapering tail Called also gray duck piketail piket tail spike tail split

Frank-marriage

the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his

Uses

make his own heirs a purchaser, even of an estate tail, for filius est pars patris-h'res est pars antecessoris; but a

Shelley's case, Rule in

the second remainder vets in A. as a remainder in tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless

Gavelkind

also to estates-tail, for if a person die seised in tail of lands held in gavelkind, all his sons shall inherit

Merger

Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the rule; for a man

Executory devise

and s. 130, (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925 (see TAIL), bar the entail, and all remainders, executory devises, and conditional

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Disentailing Deed

Wm. 4, c. 74), a tenant-in-tail can bar his estate tail by disposing of the land for an estate in fee

Lyre bird

genus Menura The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and when spread arranged in the form

Curtesy of England

A condition to restrain the husband of a feme-donee in tail from curtesy is repugnant and void, Co. Litt. 224 a.

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Pintail

of both continents The adult male has a long tapering tail Called also gray duck piketail piket tail spike tail split

Frank-marriage

the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his

Uses

make his own heirs a purchaser, even of an estate tail, for filius est pars patris-h'res est pars antecessoris; but a

Shelley's case, Rule in

the second remainder vets in A. as a remainder in tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless

Gavelkind

also to estates-tail, for if a person die seised in tail of lands held in gavelkind, all his sons shall inherit

Merger

Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the rule; for a man

Executory devise

and s. 130, (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925 (see TAIL), bar the entail, and all remainders, executory devises, and conditional

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