CROWN (continued). accountants to the. 1349, 1350 person who has executed a bond to surety for a Crown debtor, 1350 title to property derived from, 1628 CURTESY, definition of, 451 requisites, 452-464 estate limited to wife's separate remainders or reversions, 457 estate divested, 196 incident to coparcenary, 636 powers of tenant by, under Settled estate by, may be surrendered, 2052 CY PRES DOCTRINE, 411-415,419,734 recovery of, in respect of arrears of for breach of covenant, 1341 DEBTS AND INCUMBRANCES. See ASSETS. power to sell for payment of, 922 devise charged with or subject to, 959 to be paid out of rents, 923 creditors have no charge by statute, effect of a charge of, 961 mode of enforcing charges of, 967— of record, 1334 interest on, 1127 See MORTGAGE, mortgage, 1337. damages for breach of covenant, 1341 priority, 1368, 1369 to what debts issue in tail are liable, proportionate liability of jointress and issue in tail to. 1374 compulsory discharge of, 1376 concealment of, 1022, 2372, page 689, abatement of, 1384 duration of an interest by devise for release of, 2006, 2013, 2027, 2030, 2033, power to pay, compound, compromise DEBTOR. See CREDITORS-CREDITORS' arrangements between debtors and DEBTOR (continued). marriage with, 1347 bequest of sum due from, 1348 DECLARATION OF TITLE ACT, 1862, how trusts may be created and evi- how construed, 2258 DECREES, to have effect of judgments, 1184-8 DEEDS. See VOID AND VOIDABLE indentures, 1712-1716 from what time a deed takes effect, operate according to the order of the several parts enumerated, 1720—5 operative part, 1747, 1748 indorsed receipt, 1839, 1839a passing by assignment of personalty, 2074 DESCENT (continued). of an estate in fee simple, by the common law, 1267 of an advowson, 1269 of a remainder or reversion, 1270, title by purchase acquired by one to descendants of the propositus, to issue of coparceners, 1296. 1297 to the person who is heir on afterborn son displacing uncle. 1273 lineal ancestors excluded by the kindred by the half blood, 1277, excluded by the common law. 1274 taking by the statute law, to descendants of ancestors of a right of propinquity among de- right of representation among preference of descendants of the to collateral kindred of the wife inheritances descendible ex parte DESCENT (continued). of an estate in fee simple (continued). to lineal cognominal male ances- preference (by the statute law) of lineal cognominal male ances- of the ancestors and collateral preference of male paternal line what property affected by the meaning of words in the Statute DESCRIPTION. See PARCELS-WORDS. DEVESTMENT, nature of, when caused by adverse pos- devesting words must be clear, 177, not caused by cancelling, 2552 not to take place after payment, 3041 operative words, 2942 words expressive of the nature of in- residuary devise includes lapsed and interim income, 1273, 2946 tending to a perpetuity, 2948 where the word "estate" passes all a testator's interest, 2951 where a general devise passes where a general devise passes where a reversion passes, 2959 copyholds. not within the old Statutes of Wills, 2965; or Frauds, 2749 devisable by general custom, 2966 surrender to the use of will, 2967, transactions between him and his DOMICILE, 2775-2780 DONATIO MORTIS CAUSA, 2742 DOWER, defined, 470, 471 requisites to, 470 et seq. customs as to dower to cease on com- ad ostium ecclesiæ and ex assensu pa- out of what, entailed estate, 474 equitable estate, 475, 703 incorporeal hereditaments, 479 estate already assigned for dower, 481 a rent, 55, 56 an advowson, 95 tithes, 109 estates divested, 196 estate in joint tenancy, 482, 613 estate in coparcenary, 636 estate in common, 651 remainder or reversion, 483 estate subject to a chattel inter est, 483 land of which the husband is mortgagee, 485 Jewess not entitled to, 485 when it attaches, 486 conveyance in fraud of, 486 widow has no estate till assignment, assignment of dower operates by re- how assignment of dower must be what may be assigned for, 489 not affected by alienation or charge ways of preventing (at law and in Act. 492-513 uses to prevent dower, 493-8 terms for years, 513, 570 |