On the Nature and Evidence of Title to Realty: A Historical Sketch, Being the Yorke Prize Essay (1898), University of Cambridge |
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Abbot acquired advowson alienation appointment appurtenances bankrupt bankruptcy Bracton Bracton's Note-Book charter of feoffment church claim common recovery consent convey copyhold Court rolls curtesy custom customary death declared deed demesne descent devise dispose disposition Domesday Book dower ecclesiae effect enacted enrolled entitled equitable estate escheat estate tail evidence fee simple fee tail feme feoffee feoffment Fines and Recoveries folkland freehold gift give grant haeredibus heir Henry hold husband Ibid important infant inheritance inter vivos interest John king lease legal estate limitation Littleton livery of seisin lord manor marriage married woman owner personal representatives possession prescription Property Act proprietor purchaser quod realty registered release remainder rent rule says seised seisin Settled Land settlement socage Stat Statute of Frauds surrender tenant in tail tenements tenure terra thereof tion transfer trust estate unless vested Vict villein villeinage void warranty wife William witnesses writ
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Page 142 - That where any person or persons stand or be seised, or at any time hereafter shall happen to be seised, of and in any honours, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, remainders or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence or trust of any other person or persons...
Page 191 - ... defeated; and when such right, profit, or benefit shall have been so taken and enjoyed as aforesaid, for the full period of sixty years, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible, unless it shall appear that the same was taken and enjoyed by some consent or agreement expressly made or given for that purpose by deed or writing.
Page 205 - ... death of the testator, such devise shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 222 - Nothing in this Act contained shall interfere with or affect any settlement or agreement for a settlement made or to be made, whether before or after marriage, respecting the property of any married woman, or shall interfere with or render inoperative any restriction against anticipation at present attached or to be hereafter attached to the enjoyment of any property or income by a woman under any settlement, agreement for a settlement, will, or other instrument...
Page 194 - In any action or other proceeding against a trustee or any person claiming through him, except where the claim is founded upon any fraud or fraudulent breach of trust to which the trustee was party or privy...
Page 269 - When any freehold or copyhold hereditament shall be vested in a married woman as a bare trustee, she may convey or surrender the same as if she were a feme sole.
Page 213 - ... rights, and advantages whatsoever appertaining, or reputed to appertain to the land, Ortain covenant* to be implied. Conveyance. houses, or other buildings conveyed, or any of them, or any part thereof...
Page 143 - ... to be made, by reason only of any bargain and sale thereof, except the same bargain and sale be made by writing, indented, sealed, and enrolled in one of the King's Courts of Record at Westminster...
Page 263 - ... limitation of the estate to be taken by such trustee, and the beneficial interest in such real estate, or in the surplus rents and profits thereof, shall not be given to any person for life, or such beneficial interest shall be given to any person for life, but the purposes of the trust may continue beyond the life of such person, such devise shall be construed to vest in such trustee the fee simple, or other the whole legal estate which the testator had power to dispose of by will in such real...
Page 221 - Act may be exercised on his behalf by the trustees of the settlement, and if there are none, then by such person and in such manner as the Court, on the application of a testamentary or other guardian or next friend of the infant, either generally or in a particular instance, orders.