Principles of Conveyancing: An Elementary Work for the Use of StudentsStevens & Haynes, 1883 - 488 pages |
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Principles of Conveyancing: An Elementary Work for the Use of Students ... Henry C. Deane No preview available - 2017 |
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45 Vict 9 Vict action agreement alienation assigns attornment Barrister-at-Law Beav clause Common Law condition contract convey Conveyancing Act copyholds Court of Chancery covenant created custom death debts demise devise dower enacted equitable estate equity of redemption estate in fee-simple estate in land estate or interest estate tail execution executors fee-simple feoffment fixtures forfeiture freehold granted heirs held hereditaments husband inheritance Inner Temple issue joint-tenants land lease leasehold legal estate lessee lessor liable limited livery of seisin lord manor married ment mort mortgage deed mortgagor necessary notice owner particular estate parties passing payment possession premises purchaser Real Property reference remainder rent Reports respect reversion revoked rule seised seisin settled settlement settlor Socage Statute of Frauds surrender take effect tenant in tail tenure term tion trustees unless vendor Villein words
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Page 416 - It shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator or by some other person in his presence and by his direction, and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 360 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing...
Page 194 - And be it further enacted, that 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 433 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 94 - ... hereditament, it shall go to the executor or administrator of the party that had the estate thereof by virtue of the grant ; and if the same shall come to the executor or administrator either by reason of a special occupancy or by virtue of this act, it shall be assets in his hands, and shall go and be applied and distributed in the same manner as the personal estate of the testator or intestate.
Page 224 - ... shall be construed to include any real estate, or any real estate to which such description shall extend (as the case may be), which he may have power to appoint in any manner he may think proper, and shall operate as an execution of such power, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will...
Page 146 - That, when any person shall be in possession or in receipt of the profits of any land, or in receipt of any rent, as tenant at will, the right of the person entitled subject thereto, or of the person through whom he claims, to make an entry or distress, or...
Page 417 - ... will ; but the will, with such alteration as part thereof, shall be deemed to be duly executed if the signature of the testator and the subscription of the witnesses be made in the margin, or on some other part of the will...
Page 308 - 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 419 - Witnesses, or by the Circumstance that the Signature shall be on a Side or Page or other Portion of the Paper or Papers containing the Will whereon no Clause or Paragraph or disposing Part of the Will shall be written above the Signature, or by the Circumstance that there shall appear to be sufficient Space on or at the Bottom of the preceding Side or Page or other Portion of the same Paper on which the Will is written to contain the Signature...