Burge's Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws Generally: And in Their Conflict with Each Other and with the Law of England, Volume 4, Issue 1Sweet & Maxwell limited, 1914 - Colonies |
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acquired alienation Andr apply appointed belonging Burge C. C. of St Civil Code Code Civil Colony condition contract Court creditors Crown lands curator Dalloz death debt deed Dict disposition emphyteusis English law entail entitled Ersk executors family council favour fee simple feudal fideicommis fideicommissary fideicommissum fiduciary Fock German Government granted Grot Grotius guardian guardianship heir heritable hypothec Ibid immovable property inheritance Inst institute interdiction interest Introd Keessel landlord lease lex situs Lucia lunatic minor mortgage nominated obschina Ordinance owner ownership Pand payment person possession prohibition propre provisions purchase purposes Quebec quit-rent real property recognised regards registered rent Rettie Roman law Roman-Dutch law rule Scots Law settlement Shaw Sirey statute substitution tailzie tenant tenure testamentary testator tion transfer trust unless usufruct Vict Voet ward xxxvi
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Page 970 - ... of and in such like estates as they had or shall have in use trust or confidence of or in the same.
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Page 962 - Vested remainders (or remainders executed, whereby a present interest passes to the party, though to be enjoyed in futuro} are where the estate is invariably fixed, to remain to a determinate person, after the particular estate is spent.
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Page 623 - Goods" include all chattels personal other than things in action and money. The term includes emblements, -industrial growing crops, and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale.
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Page 157 - Nothing is an offence which is done by a child above seven years of age and under twelve, who has not attained sufficient maturity of understanding to judge of the nature and consequences of his conduct on that occasion.
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Page 386 - At any time after the expiration of ten years from the date of entry into force of this Convention, any...