Notes on Perusing Titles: Containing Practical Observations on the Points Most Frequently Arising on a Perusal of Titles to Real and Leasehold Property and an Epitome of the Notes Arranged by Way of Reminders

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Jordan & Sons, 1903 - Conveyancing - 404 pages
 

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Page 167 - It shall not be necessary to prove by the attesting witness any instrument to the validity of which attestation is not requisite ; and such instrument may be proved by admission or otherwise, as if there had been no attesting witness thereto.
Page 309 - Will, or may convey the land to any person entitled thereto as heir, devisee, or otherwise, and may make the assent or conveyance, either subject to a charge for the payment of any money which the personal representatives are liable to pay, or without any such charge ; and on such assent or conveyance...
Page 308 - In the administration of the assets of a person dying after the commencement of this Act, his real estate shall be administered in the same manner, subject to the same liabilities for debts, costs, and expenses, and with the same incidents, as if it were personal estate...
Page 181 - The inability of the vendor to furnish the purchaser with a legal covenant to produce and furnish copies of documents of title shall not be an objection to title in case the purchaser will, on the completion of the contract, have an equitable right to the production of such documents.
Page 204 - ... at the time of the death of the testator, such devise or bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 140 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs...
Page 207 - Sections shall not extend to a Devise to any Person or Persons in Fee or in Tail, or for the Testator's whole Estate and Interest charged with Debts or Legacies, nor shall they affect the Power of any such Devisee or Devisees to sell or mortgage as he or they may by Law now do.
Page 228 - ... settlement can prove that the settlor was at the time of making the settlement able to pay all his debts without the aid of the property comprised in the settlement, and that the interest of the settlor in such property had passed to the trustee of such settlement on the execution thereof.
Page 138 - And so it is if a lease be made to two, habendum the one moiety to the one and the other moiety to the other, the habendum doth make them tenants in common : and so one part of the deed doth explain the other, and no repugnancy between them, et semper expressum facit cessare taciturn.
Page 126 - But the result of the authorities, without going through them, appears to be this : that a reservation of " minerals " includes every substance which can be got from underneath the surface of the earth for the purpose of profit, unless there is something in the context or in the nature of the transaction to induce the Court to give it a more limited meaning.

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