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  • 111waste — verb 1》 use carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.     ↘(usu. be wasted on) expend on an unappreciative recipient: small talk was wasted on him.     ↘fail to make full or good use of. 2》 (often waste away) become progressively weaker and… …

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  • 112ad communem legem — /aed kamyuwnam liyjam/ At common law, the name of a writ of entry (now obsolete) brought by the reversioners after the death of the life tenant, for the recovery of lands wrongfully alienated by him …

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  • 113ad communem legem — /aed kamyuwnam liyjam/ At common law, the name of a writ of entry (now obsolete) brought by the reversioners after the death of the life tenant, for the recovery of lands wrongfully alienated by him …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 114at — A word the significance of which is usually controlled by the entire context. Johnson v Cunningham, 107 Miss 140, 65 So 115. A relative term, signifying nearness when applied to a place. Rogers v Galloway Female College, 64 Ark 627, 44 SW 454;… …

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  • 115bog grass — A kind of hay but constituting a part of the freehold, so that it is waste for a life tenant to take it as fodder. Sarles v Sarles (NY) 3 Sandf Ch 601 …

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  • 116for own use — A limitation or restriction. For meaning of term as it pertains to the rights and duties of a life tenant with power to anticipate or enjoy the principal, see Anno: 2 ALR 1266 …

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  • 117if any — In reference to children of a life tenant:having the effect of making a remainder contingent. Anno: 57 ALR2d 128. The charter of a bridge company requiring the payment of damages if any, by reason of the erection of the bridge, means all damages… …

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  • 118if living at his death — A reference to children of a life tenant to whom the remainder is bequeathed which has the effect of making the remainder contingent. Collins v Crawford (Mo) 103 SW 537, affd on reh 214 Mo 167, 112 SW 538 …

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  • 119power appendant — A power of appointment existing under the circumstances that it is given to a person having an estate in the property and the estate to be created by the power is to take or may take effect in possession, during the continuance of the estate to… …

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  • 120power of sale — A provision in a chattel mortgage for the enforcement of the lien of the mortgage by sale, without the necessity of resort to judicial proceedings. 15 Am J2d Chat Mtg §§ 127 et seq. A provision in a real estate mortgage, or in a separate… …

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