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Market value
1973 SC 305: (1973) 2 SCR 720: (1973) 1 SCC 109. Market value means the price that a willing purchaser would pay to a willing seller for the property having due regard to its existing condition with
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
18, to bar the remainders or reversion over, and if he convey his interest to another, such other will be only a tenant pur autre vie, and will be punishable for waste. Apparently, impossibility will not be
testament
testament [Latin testamentum, from testari to call as a witness, make a will, from testis witness] 1 : an act by which a person determines the disposition of his or her
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Advowson
again become appendant. But should an advowson be disappended conditionally, as in the case of a mortgage, it will reunite when the loan is repaid. So, if the advowson be excepted in a lease of the corporeal
Tenure
villenage was the origin of the present copyhold tenures, or tenure by copy of Court roll, at the will of the lord. See MANOR; COPYHOLD; HERIOT. Privileged villenage, sometimes called villein-socage, is where lands have been held
Election
greater number for an office. The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to
Graveyard
practice grows so that it is proved by instances adequate in character, number and extent, then the presumption will be that the dedication is complete and the graveyard has become a public graveyard where the Mahomedan public
Libel
matter that tends to degrade a man in the opinion of his neighbours, or to make him ridiculous, will amount (when conveyed in writing, or by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB
Merger
right both an estate tail and a reversion in fee; and the estate tail, though a less estate, will not merge in the fee, 2 Bl. Com. 177. The doctrine of merger probably results from the maxim,
Attestation Clause
execution, stating that they have witnessed it. Such a clause (in very precise terms)is always appended to a will formally prepared, the most common form being as follows:- Signed by the above-named and acknowledged by him as
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