Handy Book of Exercises on a Series of Abstracts of Title to Freehold, Copyhold, and Leasehold Estates, and Personalty: With Observations and Requisitions on Each Title, Arranged as Exercises for the Use of Law Students and Articled Clerks

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Reeves and Turner, 1884 - Abstracts of title - 238 pages

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Page 220 - Recitals, statements, and descriptions of facts, matters, and parties contained in deeds, instruments, Acts of Parliament, or statutory declarations, twenty years old at the date of the contract, shall, unless and except so far as they shall be proved to be inaccurate, be taken to be sufficient evidence of the truth of such facts, matters, and descriptions.
Page 217 - In the completion of any such contract as aforesaid, and subject to any stipulation to the contrary in the contract, the obligations and rights of vendor and purchaser shall be regulated by the following rules : that is to say — First. —Under a contract to grant or assign a term of years, whether derived or to be derived out of a freehold or leasehold estate, the intended lessee or assign shall not be entitled to call for the title to the freehold.
Page 169 - A person entitled to the income of land under a trust or direction for payment thereof to him during his own or any other life, whether subject to expenses of management or not, or until sale of the land, or until forfeiture of his interest therein on bankruptcy or other event.
Page 54 - ... then already prepared and engrossed, and intended to bear date the day next after the...
Page 221 - ... possession, and all attested, stamped, office, or other copies or abstracts of, or extracts from, any Acts of Parliament or other documents aforesaid, not in the vendor's possession, if any such production, inspection, journey, search, procuring, making, or verifying is required by a purchaser, either for verification of the abstract, or for any other purpose, shall be borne by the purchaser who requires the same ; and where the vendor retains possession of any document, the expenses of making...
Page 220 - Where land sold is held by lease (not including under-lease), the purchaser shall assume, unless the contrary appears, that the lease was duly granted; and, on production of the receipt for the last payment due for rent under the lease before the date of actual completion of the purchase...
Page 126 - ... during her life, for her separate use without power of anticipation, and after her death upon certain trusts for the benefit of the settlor, and the issue of the marriage.
Page 50 - Dornton, who, being a son or sons, should live to attain the age of twenty-one years, or, being a daughter or daughters, should live to attain that age, or be married under that age, and, if more than one, in equal shares and for their respective heirs as tenants in common, and, if only one such child, in trust for such one child and his or her heirs.
Page 222 - On a sale of any property in lots, a purchaser of two or more lots, held wholly or partly under the same title, shall not have a right to more than one abstract of the common title, except at his own expense.
Page 218 - This section applies only if and as far as a contrary intention is not expressed...

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