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Occupation

trade, profession or other means of earning a living, Wester's Third New International Dictionary, p. 1650; see also T.M.A. Pai Foundation … natural or artificial, is engaged with the element of a degree of permanency attached, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 67; see also

Reasonable parts

his widow, and the other to his children, the remaining third going in accordance with his will. This right of the … of Magna Carta, but became lost to them by imperceptible degrees. The Wills Act, 1837, is inconsistent with, but does not

Age

for convenience in the administration of estates (Farwell on Powers, 3rd Edn., p. 339); see, e.g., re Widdow's Trusts, (1871) 11 … involving carnal knowledge, except as a principal in the second degree in a rape, or the like, where if he has

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Coparceners or parceners

to have a determinate portion. (b) Where they appointed some third person to divide the estate, and after a division by … gavelkind lands, which descended to all the males in equal degree, as the sons, brothers, or uncles of the deceased intestate

Extent

return, the debtor, if he dispute the debt, or a third person, if he claim the property set forth in the … There is also an extent in chief in the second degree, which is a proceeding by the Crown against the debtor

Gavelkind

several brothers succeeded, and uncle surviving, for though in equal degree, they stood in the place of their respective fathers. The

Hire

and of watchmakers to repair watches; (b) locatio custodi' (the third division first above mentioned), or the receiving of goods on … in a proper manner; and, lastly, to exercise a proper degree of care and diligence about the work. The hiring of

Remainder

CROSS-REMAIN-DERS; VESTED REMAINDER; EXECUTORY DEVISE. A future interest arising in third person that is, some one other than creator of estate … only recover it by action. This removes A.'s title one degree farther than while he could restore his possession by entry

Zero

Zero, is a lowest point or lowest in order, Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It is a mathematical value, intermediate between … Dictionary of English Language. Zero, represents the lowest point of degree of the lowest number of votes which can be possibly

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