REMAINDERMAN

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired. Someone who will inherit property in the future. … [Read more...] about REMAINDERMAN

The remnant of an estate in land, depending upon a particular prior estate created at the same time and by the same'instrument, and limited to arise immediately on the determination of that estate, and not in abridgment of it 4 Kent, Comm. 197. An estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined. As, if a man seised in fee simple grants lands to … [Read more...] about REMAINDER

In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement. In mining law. A new or fresh location of an abandoned or forfeited mining claim by a stranger, or by the original locator when he wishes to change the boundaries or to correct mistakes in the original location. … [Read more...] about RELOCATION

Latin: In the civil law. A renewal of a lease on its determination. It may be either express or tacit; the latter is when the tenant holds over with the knowledge and without objection of the landlord. Mackeld. Rom. Law, f 412. … [Read more...] about RELOCATIO

Remains; such as the bones, etc., of saints, preserved with great veneration as sacred memorials. They have been forbidden to be used or brought into England. St 3 Jac. I. c. 26. … [Read more...] about RELIQUES