Elements of Conveyancing: With Cursory Remarks Upon the Study of that Science, Including a List of Books, for the Use of Students and Practitioners, and Also Observations and Directions Relative to the Practice of Conveyancing, Particularly with Respect to the Perusal of Abstracts of Title, and Preparing of Deeds and Assurances, of Real and Personal Property, Volume 3W. Clarke, 1821 - Conveyancing |
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... tenant at will , which is in by the lease of his lessor at the common law , and tenant at will according to the custom of the manor ; for tenant at will according to that custom of the manor , may , as is before said , have an estate of ...
... tenant at will , which is in by the lease of his lessor at the common law , and tenant at will according to the custom of the manor ; for tenant at will according to that custom of the manor , may , as is before said , have an estate of ...
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... tenant , as long as he continues tenant , is to hold the land under such terms and conditions as the custom has esta- blished ' ( 1 ) . Origin of Copyholds . This tenure arose from the grant of lands made in the ancient feudal times ...
... tenant , as long as he continues tenant , is to hold the land under such terms and conditions as the custom has esta- blished ' ( 1 ) . Origin of Copyholds . This tenure arose from the grant of lands made in the ancient feudal times ...
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... tenants who hold of the lord ; and , by the operation of these statutes , no tenant in capite since the accession of that prince , and no tenant of a common lord since the statute of quia emptores , could create any new tenants to hold ...
... tenants who hold of the lord ; and , by the operation of these statutes , no tenant in capite since the accession of that prince , and no tenant of a common lord since the statute of quia emptores , could create any new tenants to hold ...
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... tenant upon his death ; nor , in the second , can he remove his present tenant so long as he lives , though he holds nominally by the precarious tenure of his lord's will ' . The fruits and appendages of a copyhold tenure , which it ...
... tenant upon his death ; nor , in the second , can he remove his present tenant so long as he lives , though he holds nominally by the precarious tenure of his lord's will ' . The fruits and appendages of a copyhold tenure , which it ...
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... tenant to act in his stead : and he , like guardian in soccage , is account- able to his ward for the profits . Of fines , some are in the nature of primer seisins , due on the death of each tenant , others are mere fines for alienation ...
... tenant to act in his stead : and he , like guardian in soccage , is account- able to his ward for the profits . Of fines , some are in the nature of primer seisins , due on the death of each tenant , others are mere fines for alienation ...
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admitted afterwards alienation ancient demesne assignment Blac bond Borough-English cestui que trust Chan common law condition conveyance coparcenary coparceners Copyh copyhold COPYHOLD ESTATE courts of equity covenant creditors custom daughters death debts decree deed descend devise dower Eliz entitled equity of redemption executed executors fee-simple feme covert feoffee feoffment foreclosure forfeiture freebench freehold gage gavelkind Gilb grant grantor hath heir at law held heriot holden husband Ibid incumbrances infant inheritance intent interest joint joint-tenants lease legacy legal estate Leon limited lord manor moiety mort mortgage mortgagor notice paid particular estate parties payment personal estate possession Prec profits purchaser reason redeem remainder rent respect reversion rule Salk seised seisin statute surrender survivor survivorship tenant in tail tenants in common tenements tenure term Vern vested void Watk wife words
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Page 494 - Contingent or executory remainders (whereby no present interest passes) are where the estate in remainder is limited to take effect, either to a dubious and uncertain person, or upon a dubious and uncertain event; so that the particular estate may chance to be determined, and the remainder never take effect.
Page 561 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs...
Page 516 - ... lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, remainders, or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence, or trust of any other person or persons, or of any body...
Page 419 - They have not, one of them, a seisin of one half or moiety, and the other of the other moiety; neither can one be exclusively seised of one acre, and his companion of another; but each has an undivided moiety of the whole, and not the whole of an undivided moiety (j).
Page 505 - An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him.
Page 8 - Temple speaks (/), a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Page 530 - June (1677) all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect.
Page 254 - Precedent are such as must happen or be performed before the estate can vest or be enlarged: subsequent are such, by the failure or non-performance of which an estate already vested may be defeated.
Page 507 - Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater.
Page 449 - This is the natural and regular consequence of the union and entirety of their interest. The interest of two joint-tenants is not only equal or similar, but also is one and the same. One has not originally a distinct moiety from the other; but, if by any subsequent act (as by alienation or forfeiture of either) the interest becomes separate and distinct: the joint-tenancy instantly ceases.