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use

the beneficial enjoyment of it see also trust Statute of Uses in the Important Laws section NOTE: Uses originated in early

Mortmain

repealed and reenacted by the consolidating mortmain and (English) Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), which provides

Springing use

it may operate as a shifting use. Springing and shifting uses were resorted to in order to facilitate freedom of grant

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Scintilla juris et tituli

seisin, which was supposed to exist in the grantee to uses, when all actual seisin was taken from him by the

Deed

a covenant to stand seised, or a simple declaration of uses, because such deeds themselves fulfil that office by limiting the

Power

declarations or directions deriving their effect from the Statute of Uses. A power given before 1926 by a will to A.,

Charities, or Public Trusts

a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether

Dower

by the 27 Hen. 8, c. 10 (the Statute of Uses), set about a method of diminishing the evil by providing

Royal Arms

68. --If any person, without the authority of His Majesty, uses in connexion with any trade, business, calling, or profession, the

Declaration of trust

inconvenience which arose from parol declarations and secret transfers of uses, s. 53 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925,

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