The Student's Conveyancing: Being Specially Intended for the Use of Candidates at the Final and Honors Examinations of the Law Society

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Reeves and Turner, 1885 - Conveyancing - 552 pages
 

Contents

The jointure provision
361
Portions for younger children
362
The uses in strict settlement
366
Trustee clauses
367
The provisions of the Settled Land Act 1882 as amended by the Settled Land Act 1884
370
Sanderson Times 9th Dec 1884
382
Wake L R 4 Ch D 606 46 L J Ch 841
391
The Settled Estates Act 1877
393
CHAPTER IV
397
How far voluntary settlements are liable to be avoided
399
How far a voluntary settlement can be recalled
401
Agreements for voluntary settlements
403
WILLS 405475
405
Who may make a will
406
The formalities made essential by law to a valid will
410
The revocation of wills
418
The revival of revoked wills
422
Alterations and obliterations in wills
423
The time from which a will speaks
424
What property will be included in a general devise
426
The effect of a devise without words of limitation
428
The amount of the estate which trustees take under various cir cumstances
429
When a lapse of a devise or bequest occurs
430
CHAPTER II
432
Construction of particular phrases
435
CHAPTER III
448
The appointment of executors
449
The bequest of legacies
450
The carrying on of the testators trade or business
451
From what time legacies carry interest
454
Several legacies to the same person
456
Legacies when vested and when contingent
457
Legacies upon condition
459
Legacies to creditors and debtors
464
Provisions for the benefit of the testators family
465
The duties of executor with regard to wasting property
471
The appointment of guardians
474
Some Miscellaneous Subjects 476499
476
CHAPTER II
487
CHAPTER IV
495
INDEX
515
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526
339
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Page 421 - ... is required for the execution of the 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 94 - 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 246 - India warrants, warehouse-keepers certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods...
Page 382 - ... (i.) Drainage, including the straightening, widening, or deepening of drains, streams and watercourses : (ii.) Irrigation ; warping : (iii.) Drains, pipes, and machinery for supply and distribution of sewage as manure : (iv.) Embanking or weiring from a river or lake, or from the sea, or a tidal water : (v.) Groynes ; sea walls ; defences against water : (vi.) Inclosing ; straightening of fences ; re-division of fields : (vii...
Page 60 - ... should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 366 - ... to drain or otherwise improve the land or any part thereof, and to insure against loss by fire, and to make allowances to and arrangements with tenants and others, and to determine tenancies, and to accept surrenders of leases and tenancies, and generally to deal with, the land in a proper and due course of management...
Page 121 - ... exempt a purchaser from any liability under, or any obligation to perform or observe, any covenant, condition, provision, or restriction contained in any instrument under which his title is derived, mediately or immediately ; and such liability or obligation may be enforced in the same manner and to the same extent as if this section had not been enacted.
Page 422 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 426 - ... unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will, by reason of such person having a prior estate tail, or of a preceding gift, being, without any implication arising from such words, a limitation of an estate tail to such person or issue, or otherwise...
Page 413 - Signed sealed published and declared by the said Robert Flint as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.

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