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Tail
when it vests in such third person or remainder-man. Before 1926, in order to create an estate-tail by deed, the word 'heir' or 'heirs' must be used, White v. Collins, (1719) 1 Comyns' Rep 289, (301); 2 … Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)] The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn.,
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Power
no estate was devised, and a statutory power to sell estates, as in the instance of the Land Tax Redemption Acts, are both Common Law authorities. The estate passed by force of the will or passes by … Statute of Uses are either given to a person who has an estate limited to him by the deed creating the power, or who had an estate in the land at the time of the execution of
Consideration
contract, that is to say, a promise by word of mouth or in writing which is not a deed, requires valuable consideration to support it, but if the promise is by deed, even the expressed absence of … applied his mind to the particular subject-matter or the particular source of income with a view to its taxability or to its non-taxability and not to any incidental connection', C.I.T v. Gurjargravures (P.) Ltd., AIR 1978 SC
deed
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Abstract of title
Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it. Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered … statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The
Parol evidence
evidence to explain the meaning of, or to add to, vary, or alter the express terms of a deed, is, that it shall not be admitted, Henderson v. Arthur, (1907) 1 KB 10, except: (1) where, although … Parol evidence, testimony by the mouth of a witness. It is a general rule that oral evidence cannot be substituted for a written instrument, where the latter is
Covenant
Covenant [fr. Covenant, Fr.], any agreement, convention, or promise of two or more parties, by deed in writing, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which either of the parties pledges himself to the other that … sched. Of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, as to covenants implied in a conveyance (not a mortgage) for value of land subject to a rent charge or an assignment for value of a lease similarly subject, see
Actus reus
a 'deed', a physical result of human conduct. When criminal policy regards such a deed as sufficiently harmful it prohibits it and seeks to prevent its occurrence by imposing a penalty for its commission. It has long
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