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Lyre bird
or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and when spread arranged in the form of a lyre The common lyre bird Menura
Disentailing Deed
Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), a tenant-in-tail can bar his estate tail by disposing of the land for an estate in fee simple or any less estate, and thus defeat
Trust
document or a bequest or devise by will pass without the words 'heirs of the body' or 'in tail'; in the case of an executed document, apt words of limitation were necessary [see Re Moncton's Settlement, (1913)
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Quasi-entail
Quasi-entail. An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of his body, which is termed a quasi-entail; the interest so granted...
Curtesy of England
Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A condition to restrain the husband of a feme-donee in tail from curtesy is repugnant and void, Co. Litt. 224 a. An estate by the curtesy, in respect of
Pintail
A northern duck Dafila acuta native of both continents The adult male has a long tapering tail Called also gray duck piketail piket tail spike tail split tail springtail sea pheasant and gray widgeon
Frank-marriage
donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his body.' The legal estate in estates tail has
Merger
same time and in the same right' [Re Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the rule; for a man may have in his own right both an
entail
entail [Middle English entaillen, from en-, causative prefix + taille restriction on inheritance see tail ] : to make (an estate in real property) a fee tail :
heir
presumptive in this entry heir at law : heir heir general pl: heirs general : heir heir in tail : an heir to a fee-tail estate called also heir of entail heir of the body : an
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