A Digest of the Laws, of England Respecting Real Property, Volume 4

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A. Strahan, 1804
 

Contents

Who may be Appointees
241
12 A Power given generally may be executed either by Deed
246
Exception
255
An Appointment may only be a Revocation pro tanto
261
A Condition annexed to an Appointment is void
268
ibid 51
269
52
270
Unleſs there are ſpecial Words
274
Effects of the Execution of a Power
281
CHAP XVII
287
CHAP XVIII
293
a 2
307
6th As to the Clauſes and Covenants
320
Where a complete Execution is prevented by Accident ibid
330
Affets
332
Powers to Leafe not barred by a Charge on the Land
336
A Power may be forfeited to the Crown
342
Utility of the Regiſter Acts
349
How Deeds may be avoided
367
Notice is immaterial
375
Who are deemed Purchaſers nnder the 27 Eliz
382
How far the Confideration of Marriage extends
398
Settlement by a Widow on her Children
404
Of the Construction of Deeds
415
12
422
Where it enlarges abridges or explains the Premiſes
434
8
442
What Words create an Eſtate for Life
451
What Words create a Condition
459
Origin of the Rule
470
Both the Eſtates must be created by the fame Inſtrument
478
The Rule adopted in Afſignments of Terms for Years
484
CHAP XXVI
491
Mode
495
And alfo to Ufes arifing from Appointments
497
And a veſted Remainder limited on that Eſtate
505
What
509
What makes a private
511
Operation of a private
519
38 But not a Remainder after an Eſtate for Life
525
Effect of the General Saving
535
A private Act may be relieved against
544
Standing Orders of the House of Lords
553
As to Bills relative to Eſtates in Ireland
560
Of Crown Lands 565 ibid
566

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Page 550 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery...
Page 41 - Tenement is a word of still greater extent, and though in its vulgar acceptation it is only applied to houses and other buildings, yet in its original, proper, and legal sense it signifies everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature ; whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal kind.
Page 165 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio;* but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force: as, payment of rent; performance of covenants in a deed; or repayment of a principal sum of money borrowed of the obligee, with interest, which principal sum is usually one half of the penal sum specified in the bond.
Page 10 - When the several parts of an indenture are interchangeably executed by the several parties, that part or copy which is executed by the grantor is usually called the original...
Page 373 - Eliz. is this; if there is a voluntary conveyance of real estate or chattel interest by one not indebted at the time, though he afterwards becomes indebted, if that voluntary conveyance was for a child, and no particular evidence or badge of fraud to deceive or defraud subsequent creditors, that will be good ; but if any mark of fraud, collusion, or intent to deceive subsequent creditors appears, that will make it void ; otherwise not, but it will stand, though afterwards he becomes indebted.
Page 392 - The queflion, therefore, in every cafe is, whether *' the aft done is a bond fide tranfa£Uon ; or, whether ** it is a trick and contrivance to defeat creditors. If >' there be a conveyance to a truftee for the benefit " of the debtor, it is fraudulent : the queftion then " is, whether this fettlement is of that fort ? It is a " fettlement, which is very common in great families.
Page 116 - ... words, whether they run in the form of a licence, covenant, or agreement, are of themselves sufficient, and will, in construction of law, amount to a lease for years, as effectually as if the most proper and pertinent words had been made use of for that purpose...
Page 138 - This case,' said Lord MANSFIELD, 'is extremely clear. To construe this acceptance of rent, due since the condition broken, a waiver of the forfeiture, is to construe it according to the intention of the parties. Upon the breach of the condition the landlord had a right to enter. H He had full notice of the breach, and does not take advantage of it, but accepts rent subsequently accrued. That shows he meant the lease should continue. Cases of forfeiture are not favoured in law; and when the forfeiture...
Page 459 - M. to be begotten, share and share alike, equally to be divided between them, and of the heirs of the body and bodies of all and every such daughter and daughters lawfully issuing, and for default of such issue, over.
Page 413 - ... upon them. But here a distinction must be taken between an indenture and a deed-poll: for the words of an indenture, executed by both parties, are to be considered as the words of them both; for, though delivered as the words of one party, yet they are not his words only, because the other party hath given his consent to every one of them. But in a deed-poll, executed...

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