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61aid-prayer — A prayer or demand that other parties shall be joined in the action and help defend his title, which a defendant tenant may make in a real action as a preliminary step before putting in his plea. He may thus call for assistance because of the… …
62catching bargain — A bargain or agreement of an expectant heir, remainderman or reversioner for the sale of his expectancy at a grossly inadequate price and under circumstances rendering the transaction an unconscionable one. 41 Am Rep 713, note …
63cross remainders — Remainders limited after particular estates to two or more persons in several parcels of land, or in several undivided shares in the same parcel of land, in such way that on the determination of the particular estates in any of the several… …
64discontinuance of estate — The termination or interruption of an estate tail by a grant by the tenant in tail of a larger estate than he had, thereby either defeating the estate of the tenant in tail or that of the remainderman or reversioner. See 3 Bl Comm 171 …
65earnings — In a pristine sense, the gains of a person from his services or labor, without the aid of capital. 22 Am J2d Damg § 89; 31 Am J2d Exemp § 39. In the modern sense and development of the term, it includes profits from the employment of capital, as… …
66ejectione firmae — A writ or action of trespass in ejectment which lay when lands or tenements had been let for a term of years, and afterwards the lessor, reversioner, remainderman, or a stranger, ejected or ousted the lessee of his term. See 3 Bl Comm 199 …
67enlargement of estate — Adding to an estate in property, thereby increasing the estate in importance and in value, as where the remainderman conveys or releases his interest to the life tenant or tenant for years …
68formedon in the remainder — A writ which a remainderman had against a stranger who intruded and kept him out of possession of land upon the death of the tenant for life or in tail without issue inheritable. See 3 Bl Comm 192 …
69intruder — A person who commits an intrusion. A person entering upon premises without invitation, especially a person expressly prohibited from entering. One who usurps a public office, having neither title nor color of right. Hamlin v Kassafer, 178 SC 351 …
70release deed — A deed of quitclaim. 23 Am J2d Deeds § 16. Formerly, the term seems to have been applied only to deeds conveying all the right, title and interest of the grantor to a grantee who already had some estate in possession in the land released, but in… …
