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Priority

the date and time of creation of the equitable interest and subject to the formalities required for the transfer. Special rules as to the persons, if any, to whom notice must be given and, in their absence,

Stamp duties

of the revenue. With respect to very large classes of instruments, being either (1) Bonds, (2) Conveyances of Transfers, (3) Leases or Agreements for Leases, (4) Mortgages whether legal or equitable, or (5) Settlements, the Act of

Notice

by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 112, which provides that a 10s. stamp on a transfer of mortgage does not by itself give notice of a trust; and see also s. 113 (ibid.), which

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Married women's property

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that

Negotiable instruments

bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques. S. 31 declares that these instruments are negotiated when they are transferred from one person to another in such a manner as to constitute the transferee the holder of them,

Fidei-commissum

testamentary disposition, by which a person who gives a thing to another imposes on him the obligation of transferring it to a third person. The obligation wass not created bywords of legal binding force (civilia verba), but

English mortgage

English mortgage, Where the mortgagor binds him-self to repay the mortgage-money on a certain date, and transfers the mortgaged property absolutely to the mortgagee, but subject to a proviso that he will retransfer in to

Conveyance

Conveyance, an instrument which transfers property from one person to another, defined for the purposes of the Law of Property Act, 1925, s.

Fieri feci

Fiducia. If a man transferred his property to another, on condition that it should be restored to him, this contract was called fiducia,

Purchase

possession to which a man cometh not by title of descent; see Co. Litt. 18 b. Means any transfer of property in goods to the person making the purchase for cash or deferred payment or other valuable

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