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  • Scandal Urn Magnatum

    Definition of Scandal Urn Magnatum The former offence of making defamatory statements regarding persons of high rank, such as peers, Judges or great officers of State Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Scandal Urn Magnatum in the Dictionaries, […]

  • Que Estate

    Definition of Que Estate See Prescription Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Que Estate in the Dictionaries, Que Estate in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]

  • Que Estate

    Definition of Que Estate See Prescription Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Que Estate in the Dictionaries, Que Estate in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]

  • Patman V, Harland

    Definition of Patman V, Harland (17 Ch. D. 353). A lessee lias notice of his lessor’s title.P conveyed to H two freehold plots of land, part of a building estate, subject to restrictive covenants that only private dwelling-houses should be erected. H conveyed the plots, subject to the […]

  • Outstanding

    Definition of Outstanding The legal estate in land is said to be outstanding when it has been conveyed to a mortgagee, and has not been reconveyed to the mortgagor when the mortgage debt has been cleared off. Similarly an outstanding term is a term of years which has not come to an end […]

  • Name And Arms Clause

    Definition of Name And Arms Clause The clause, sometimes inserted in a will or settlement by which property is given to a person, for the purpose of imposing on him the condition that he shall assume the surname and arms of the testator or settlor, with a direction that if he neglects to […]

  • Legal Estate

    Definition of Legal Estate See Estate Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Legal Estate in the Dictionaries, Legal Estate in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, Find […]

  • Lease And Release

    Definition of Lease And Release A mode of conveying freehold land which was in common use from 1536 to 1841. It was used to evade the Statute of Enrolments (27 Hen. 8, c. 16) passed to prevent land from being conveyed secretly by bargain and sale (q.v.). The Act required only bargains and […]

  • Land Charges

    Definition of Land Charges Under the Land Charges Act, 1925, the following registers will be kept in the Land Registry : (1) A register of pending actions in which any proceeding pending in Court relating to land and a petition in bankruptcy may be registered. An unregistered pending action […]

  • Land Registration

    Definition of Land Registration The Land Registry, London, was established by by the Land Registry Act, 1862. The Land Transfer Act, 1875, provided for the voluntary registration of title to freeholds and leaseholds, and for the compulsory registration of writs, deeds, notices and charges […]