TERCE

law of Scotland. A life-rent competent by law to widows who have not accepted of special provisions in the third part of the heritable subjects in which the husband died infeft. 2. The terce takes place only where the marriage has subsisted for a year and day, or where a child has been born alive of it. No terce is due out of lands in which the husband was not infeft, unless in … [Read more...] about TERCE

estates. The manner in which lands or tenements are holden. 2. According to the English law, all lands are held mediately or immediately from the king, as lord paramount and supreme proprietor of all the lands in the kingdom. 3. The idea of tenure; pervades, to a considerable degree, the law of real property in the several states; the title to land is essentially allodial, and … [Read more...] about TENURE

In old English law. Tenure. Tennra est paetio contra eommunem fendi naturam ao rationem, in contractu laterposita. Wright Ten. 2L Tenure I a compact contrary to the common nature and.reason of the fee, put into a contract … [Read more...] about TENURA

Which he held. When the tenancy is ended and the tenant is sued in an action of waste, the averment of tenure is in the tenuit. … [Read more...] about TENUIT

In English law. A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and. granted to the king by parliament; formerly the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. 1 Bl. Comm. 308. . In English ecelesiastieal law. The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but by statute 26 Hen. VIII. c 3, transferred to the … [Read more...] about TENTHS