The Transfer of Property in British India: Being an Analytical Commentary on the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 as Amended ...

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Thacker, Spink, 1901 - Transfer (Law) - 1043 pages
 

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Page xcvi - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 86 - Charity, in its legal sense, comprises four principal divisions — trusts for the relief of poverty ; trusts for the advancement of education ; trusts for the advancement of religion ; and trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community, not falling under any of the preceding heads.
Page 28 - In the same transaction with respect to which a question of notice to the purchaser arises, it has come to the knowledge of his counsel, as such, or of his solicitor, or other agent, as such, or would have come to the knowledge of his solicitor, or other agent...
Page 81 - Nephews'; but in legal language the question whether a gift is one to a Class depends not upon these considerations, but upon the mode of gift itself, namely, — that it is a gift of an aggregate sum to a body of persons uncertain in number at the time of the gift, to be ascertained at a future time, and who are all to take in equal, or in some other definite, proportions, the share of each being dependent for its amount upon the ultimate number of persons
Page 46 - ... rights and advantages whatsoever appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land houses or other buildings conveyed, or any of them or any part thereof or at the time of conveyance demised occupied or enjoyed with or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appurtenant to the land houses or other buildings conveyed or any of them, or any part thereof.
Page 726 - Any absolute assignment, by writing under the hand of the assignor (not purporting to be by way of charge only), of any debt or other legal chose in action, of which express notice in writing shall have been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt or chose in action...
Page 6 - ... any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty...
Page 511 - Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that f whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate/ the less is immediately annihilated;! or, in the law phrase, is said to be 'merged, that is, sunk or drowned, in the greater.
Page 377 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 377 - ... causing, however innocently, a party to an agreement to make a mistake as to the substance of the thing which is the subject of the agreement.

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