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The part of a deed that formerly limited and defined an estate and the extent of ownership granted and sometimes the type of tenancy by which the grantees would hold an estate but that is now rarely encountered or is merely formal in deeds in which a fee

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  • At vero deinceps bina chartacea in manus meas inciderunt, aliud quidem valde mutilum, quod notavimus in Appara» tu hebraeo-biblico pag. 52, aliud in - tegrum quod ut unicum...
  • Ultimately, the proprietary party conceded the point, and an act was passed declaring that all of Governor Carteret’s “grants, charters, or patents” bearing the “particle or …...
  • Where one named after the habendum (hall take in a deed, - 58
  • 29nitur; quod honeftam eft, id bonam habendum eft.
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