单词 | descent cast |
释义 | > as lemmasdescent cast descent cast n. Law (now historical) inheritance of land, later esp. the process whereby transmission to the heir of someone who has acquired land in one of a number of disruptive ways removes the original owner's right of entry; cf. cast v. 36. ΚΠ a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 3 If I make a feoffment in fee, vpon condition that the feoffee shall enfeoffe over, and the feoffee be disseised, and a discent [be] cast.] a1726 G. Gilbert Treat. Tenures (1754) 60 The Disseisee may enter and occupy the Land before the Descent cast. 1793 C. Watkins Ess. Law Descents i. 33 Where lands descend to an heir who is married at the time of the descent cast. a1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. (1868) III. 518 An Act was passed in the year 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 27) containing..the provisions..that no descent cast or discontinuance happening after 31st Dec. 1833, should toll or defeat any right of entry or action for the recovery of land. 1921 Harvard Law Rev. 34 610 Henceforth it was only a descent cast that would toll an entry. 1999 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 43 166 A court held that the naturalization of the alien many years after the descent cast would not be deemed retroactive. < as lemmas |
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