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Trust

160 (1)] On the death of a sole trustee, or the last of several trustees, the legal estate vests in his personal representative as if it were a chattel real [(English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 30], replaced

In the son or daughter of such a female

on her, it would be contrary to the scheme and purpose of sub-s. (2) which essentially is to vest the right of pre-emption in the lineal descendants of the last male holder. It would follow that under

Escheat

would revert to the landlord or Zamindar, but if there was no landlord or intermediary, the property would vest in the State or, during the British Days, in the Crown (king), Sheo Nand v. Dy. Director of

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Conveyance

for the purposes of the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205, as including 'mortgage charge, lease, assent, vesting declaration, vesting instrument, disclaimer, release and every other assurance of property or of any interest therein by any

Contingency with a double aspect

kind of executory interest which maybe termed an alternative interest. This is an 'interest that is only to vest in case the next preceding interest should never vest in any way, through the failure of the contingency

Administrator

BOND and Probate Rules. Until a grant is obtained, the personal estate of a person who dies intestate vests in the President of the Probate Division: (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 9, reproducing and extending

Magistrate

have taken place. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(i)] Means: (1) A man publicly vested with authority, a governor, an executor of the laws. (2) A paid justice of the peace. See STIPENDIARY

Maintenance

by a forfeiture of 10l. See CHAMPERTY. As to maintenance of infants and persons until they attain a vested interest if they are entitled to the intermediate income or otherwise as provided under settlements created after 1925,

Maritime Courts

(English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 16, the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty was transferred to and vested in the High Court of Justice; and all causes and matters pending in that Court, or which would

Matter

word 'matter' is certainly a word of wide import and by interpreting it in a liberal way the vested rights of appeal may well be brought within the purview of article 135, Garikapeti Veeraya v. N. Subbiah

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