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Uses
for treason or felony. In fact, he was treated at Common Law as the absolute tenant of the fee. (8) A use, being but the creature of equity, could not have been taken in execution for the … be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by
Fees
of a manor who is a solicitor, but acts in the character of a steward only, were not taxable under the (English) Solicitors Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 73), s. 37, replaced by (English) Solicitors … Fees, perquisites allowed to officers in the administration of justice, as a recompense for their labour and trouble, ascertained
Conditional fee
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Barrister, or Barrastor
consult Marchant on Barristers; Warren's Law Studies; Forsyth's Hortenisus; and Chitty on Contracts; also Mew's Digest, tit. 'Barrister.' It shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. … member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), S. 3 (4)] Fees.--A barrister can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as a salary or hire, but
Base fee
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Remainder
be an estate in reversion. Thus if A. leases to B. for life, with remainder to C. in fee, and C, leases to D. For life, the estate of C. is still a remainder in reference to … creation of a particular estate, is at the same time limited over to another, who is to enjoy it after the determination of such particular estate. After 1925 remainders can operate only as equitable interests, and in
Settled land
it, or permanently to convert the whole or part of the settled land into money and receive the income derived from its investment instead of the rents of the estate. The Acts regarded the tenant for life … innovations which bring it into line with the rest of the land legislation of 1925, so that a fee-simple in possession or a term of years absolute (which are the only legal estates in existence) should be
Copyhold
practice as to the payment of the fine on the admittance of joint tenants in this: two years' value is paid for the first life, half of that on the second, and a half of that half … the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an
Recovery
Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280. A true recovery is an actual or real recovery of anything, or the value thereof, by judgment; as if a man sue for any land or other thing movable or immovable, and … record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations
Merger
rule; for a man may have in his own right both an estate tail and a reversion in fee; and the estate tail, though a less estate, will not merge in the fee, 2 Bl. Com. 177. … without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into possession the expectant which swallows up the particular estate. It is the drowning of one estate in another, and differs from suspension, which is but a partial extinguishment
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