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Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to 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 a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...
Feoffee to uses
Feoffee to uses, the person in whom, before the Statute of Uses, the legal seisin or feudal tenancy of the land was vested, the substantial and beneficial ownership or use being in the cestui qui use. The statute put an end to the estate of the feoffee to uses by transferring the possession from him to the cestui que use, who had now the legal estate, the use in his favour being executed by the statute. The (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 207, 7th Sched., has repealed the Statute of Uses in regard to dealings taking effect after 1925 and vests the legal ownership in the grantee, the beneficial owner (if another) becoming a mere cestui que trust; see also L.P. Act, 1925, 1st Sched. Part II., para 3, and L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, Sched. See USE....
Commissin of charitable uses
Commissin of charitable uses, issued out of Chancery to the bishop and others to inquire into misapplication of lands given to charitable uses, 43 Eliz. c. 4. See CHARITABLE USES....
Executory uses
Executory uses, springing uses, which conferred a legal title answering to an executory devise; as when a limitation to the use of A. in fee is defeasible by a limitation to the use of B., to arise at a future period, or on a given event. After the repeal of the (English) Statute of Uses, (English) L.P. act, 1925, s. 207 and Sched. VII., the limitations can only be created and take effect as equitable interests, Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 4....
Feoffment to uses
Feoffment to uses. See FEOFFEE TO USES....
Future uses
Future uses. See CONTINGENT USES...
Declaration of uses
Declaration of uses must be in writing, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 7. See now DECLARATION OF TRUST....
Superstitious uses
Superstitious uses. See CHARITIES....
Use
Use, connotes that the traveling or stationary vehicle at the time when it becames the subject-matters of a delictum was at the place where it is found in the course of its user in accordance with the permit granted to it, TV Moidu (in re:), AIR 1960 Mad 265.Use, in application of law is the profit or benefit of lands and tenement, or a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holdings of lands, that he to whose use the trust is made shall take the profits thereof, Tomlins.Use, in relation to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, means any kind of use except personal consumption. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 2 (xxviiia)]Meaning of the word 'use' in the Oxford Dictionary some of which are as follows: 'To make use of as a means or instrument; To employ for a profitable end;' Automotive Manufacturers (P) Ltd. v. Govern-ment of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1972 SC 229 (231): (1972) 1 SCC 125: (1972) 2 SCR 593.1. The application or employment of s...
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