Where the surviving owners of joint property acquire the property owned by a deceased joint tenant. The property owned by the deceased joint tenant does not pass to the decedent's estate. This is also known as a Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship. See joint tenancy. … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP
RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE
By the acts 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 15, and 5 & 6 Vict c. 45, the author of a play, opera, or mtfsical composition, or his assignee, has the sole right of representing or causing it to be represented in public at any place in the British dominions during the same period as the copyright in the work exists. The right is distinct from the copyright, and requires to be separately … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE
RIGHT OF DIVISION
Scottish law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt. To entitle the cautioner to this right, the other cautioners must be solvent, and there must be no words in the bond to exclude it. 1 Bell's Com. 347, 5th ed. … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF DIVISION
RIGHT OF RELIEF
In Scotch law. The right of a cautioner (surety) to demand reimbursement from the principal debtor when he has been compelled to pay the debt 1 Bell, Comm. 847. … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF RELIEF
RIGHT OF REDEMPTION
The right to disincumber property or to free it from a claim or lien; specifically, the right (granted by statute only) to free property from the incumbrance of a foreclosure or other judicial sale, or to recover the title passing thereby, by paying what is due, with interest, costs, etc. Not to be confounded with the "equity of redemption," which exists independently of … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF REDEMPTION