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ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN WRITING—continued.
What have been deemed insufficient, 296, 297.

Must contain promise to pay, 297.

With condition annexed, ib.

Legal effect of, in case of debt, 298.

Cases as to part payment of principal or interest within Lord Ten-

terden's Act, 299.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF deeds,

Not necessary previously to inrolment of disentailing conveyance,
387.

By married women, provisions relating to, 402.

When not to be impeached, 403.

May be taken by judge of County Court, 482.

Dispensed with in case of conveyance of sites for schools, 402.
Form of, 408.

Relating to two or more married women, 717, 718.

By an infant trustee, 409, n. (g).

Rules of the Common Pleas as to taking, 421-424.

See AFFIDAVITS-MARRIED WOMEN.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT of testator's signature of will, when sufficient, 508.

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May have the same effect as original agreement, 228.

Does not arise until knowledge of cestui que trust is shown, ib.
Effect of, by cestui que trust whose interest is reversionary, ib.
By cestui que trust, bars remedy against trustees, ib.

Relief after, where refused, 229.

Does not take place during continuance of undue influence, ib.
Of lessees, when not binding on reversioner,

In cases of ways, 67.

watercourses, 101.
lights, 126.

ACT OF PARLIAMENT,

Existence of, cannot be presumed from usage, 149.

ACTION,

For disturbance of enjoyment,

Of rights of common, 52, 53.

Of ways, 85.

For obstructing watercourses, 110, 111.

For fouling watercourses, 112.

For disturbance of pews, 122.

For obstructing lights, 128.

For diverting artificial watercourse, 102.

To recover land when barred, 150.

By reversioner, 86, 114, 129.

By landlord against lessee or assignee, 130.

Of covenant will lie upon word "demise" in lease, 624.

See LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

ACTIONS,

Real and mixed, to be abolished, when, 242.

Except for dower, quare impedit and ejectment, 243.

For dower and in quare impedit, to be commenced by writ of sum-
mons, ib.

Clauses saving right to bring, 245.

ACTUAL TENANT IN TAIL,
Meaning of the words, 316.

ADMINISTRATOR,

To claim from death of the intestate, 173.

Formerly time ran against, from grant of administration, ib.
Distinction between executor and, ib.

Relation of, title of, 173.

Has no right of action until administration obtained, 174.
The relation of right of, ib.

Demise in ejectment by, ib.

Not to be protector of settlement, 353.

Paying under power of attorney not to be liable by reason of death
of party giving such power, 689.

Liability of, in respect of rents, covenants and agreements in leases,
690.

Liability of, in respect of rents in conveyances on rent-charges, 691.
May apply by petition to judge of chancery for advice in manage-
ment of property, 692.

General order as to proceedings for obtaining such advice, ib.
May appoint new trustees in certain cases, 706.

Judgments as against, to be re-registered, 612.

ADVERSE POSSESSION,

Questions as to, will not arise under new limitation act, when, 150,
151.

Necessary for the operation of stat. 21 Jac. 1, c. 16..159.

How caused, ib.

Occupation by lessee not, ib.

Under an agreement for partition not, ib.

When it did not arise, 160.

Lessee for lives holding over after end of lease, 189.

Effect of nonpayment of rent under old law, ib.

Under new act, 150, 166.

See TENANTS IN COMMON.

Acknowledgment of title prevents, 194.

May arise from occupation of part of waste, when and when not,
161, 162.

Gives title when, 162.

For twenty years, raised presumption of grant, 29.

In case of market, 33.

ways, water, and light, 56.

By cestui que trust is not, as against trustee, and vice versa, 221.
Against tenant in tail, to run on against remainderman, whom he
might have barred, 209.

Old rule in such case, ib.

Receipt of rent by stranger did not amount to, 189.

Under new act, when it will be, 150, 155, 156, 168, 169.

Runs against reversioner from expiration of lease, 169.

For twenty years gave a title, when, 159.

Cases of possession not amounting to, 160.

Possession adverse to husband, adverse to wife also, 164.

Saving in new Statute of Limitations, when possession was not
adverse at passing of that act, 197.

Construction of this clause in act, 197, 198.

ADVERTISEMENT,

By executors, does not revive debts barred by Statute of Limita-
tions, 291.

Of applications under Settled Estates Act required, 671.
Orders as to, 680.

ADVICE,

Application to Court of Chancery for, how to be made, 691, 695.

ADVOWSON,

The old Statutes of Limitations did not extend to, 236.

Under new act not to be recovered, but within three incumbencies,
or sixty years, 237.

What incumbencies after lapse to be reckoned within the period, and
what not, 238.

When remainderman, &c. claiming after estate tail shall be barred,
240.

Not to be recovered after one hundred years, ib.

Judgment to operate as a charge on, 565.

See BOND-LAPSE-QUARE IMPEDIT.

AFFIDAVITS,

Verifying certificate of acknowledgment by married women, to be
drawn up in first person and divided into paragraphs, 424.
Do not require stamp, 727.

To be filed with certificate, 410.

Written on paper allowed to pass, ib.

By whom to be made, 411.

Interlineations and erasures in, ib.

In the case of acknowledgments taken abroad, ib.

Before whom to be sworn, 412.

Before British consul, ib.

Before ambassadors and other officers, 413, 424.

In case of acknowledgment by married women in Germany, 413.

in Milan, ib.

in Russia, ib.
in America, 414.
in India, 413.

In Scotland and Ireland to be taken by commissioners, 412.
In Ireland must be sworn before judge or commissioner, ib.
Ordered to be filed after certificate, when, 410.

Forms of, for verifying acknowledgment of deeds by married women,
718-726.

To be made by an attorney when the acknowledgment is taken
before a judge, 718.

To be made by a third party (either an attorney or not), and by
an attorney when the acknowledgment is taken before a judge,
719.

To be made by special commissioner, 720.

To be made by a special commissioner when more than one
married woman make acknowledgment, 722.

To be made by an attorney (not being a commissioner taking the
acknowledgment), 723.

To be made by one of the commissioners when more than one
married woman makes acknowledgment, 724.

To be made by a third party (either an attorney or not) and by
an attorney (not being a commissioner taking the acknowledg-
ment), 726.

To be delivered to proper officer within a month, 422.

Required on application by wife to alien without husband, 419.

How to be entitled under Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act,
679.

In applications for advice of court, 692.

See ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DEEDS.

AGENT,

Who is considered in reference to acknowledgments of right, 196, 233,

254, 255.

Provisions as to acknowledgments by, extended, 312.

AGREEMENT,

By tenant in tail cannot be enforced in equity against issue in tail,
363.

Not to bar dower to be enforced, 444.

To let tenements, questions as to, 620, 621.

AIR (RIGHT TO). See LIGHTS.

ALIENS,

Not to be appointed protector, 355.

Order appointing alien a trustee discharged, 651.

ALTERATION,

Of mode of enjoyment,

In case of ways, 82, 83.

watercourses, 100.

lights, 128, 129, 131.

Right of way when not lost by, 83.

In wills to be executed as a will, 518.

Presumption of law as to, in case of wills, 519.
Of line of descent, 461.

AMBASSADORS,

Oaths may be administered by, 413.

AMENDMENT,

Fines in certain cases made valid without, 330.

Cases as to amendment of fines, 331.

Recoveries when made valid without, 332.

Cases where court refused to amend recoveries, ib.
Jurisdiction to amend saved, ib.

Of acknowledgment by married women, 409, 411.

AMERICA,

As to affidavits of acknowledgment of deeds by married women in,
414.

ANCESTOR,

The exclusion of the lineal ancestor from inheriting under old law,
451.

Admission of lineal ancestor in preference to collateral persons,

463.

Of mother of more remote male ancestor, 452, 456.
Seisin of, 454.

ANCIENT DEMESNE,

Tenure of, what, 328.

Effect of fines and recoveries in the C. P. of lands in, ib.

Fines and recoveries in C. P. of lands in, to be reversed, when, 327,
329.

In manor court of, to be valid, when, 329.
Tenure of lands in, when to be restored, 330.

ANNUITY,

Given by will within 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27..152.
Distress may be taken for, 144.

Not within 32 Hen. 8, c. 2..ib.

Personal, what, 145.

Not within stat. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27.. ib.
Arrears of, when recoverable for six years only, 262.

ANNUITY-continued.

Purchasers not to be affected by, unless minute of instrument
creating, left with Senior Master of C. P., 608.

Annuities given by will excepted from last provision, 609.
Apportionment of, 541, 547, 548.

ANSWER,

To bill in Chancery when an acknowledgment of title, 195.

ANTICIPATION,

By married women may be restrained, 397, 398.
Clause against, may apply to every coverture, 398, 399.
May be confined to a particular coverture, 399.
May be annexed to an estate for life or in fee, ib.
Must be clearly expressed, 400.

APPEAL,

Petition of, to House of Lords, must be within two years, 273.
By persons under disabilities, within two years after
their removal, ib.

APPOINTMENT,

To be considered as part of settlement creating the power, 317.
Takes effect as if inserted in deed by which power was given, 324.
Defeats right of dower, 325.

And lien of judgment, ib.

Not under new act as to judgments, ib.
Exception to the rule, ib.

Has not relation in point of time, ib.

Deed of, in register county, postponed, where, 326.

In favour of children, when fraudulent, 360.

By infant, when to be void, 427.

By will, under power to be executed as a proper will, 514.

Must conform to terms of power, when, ib.

A gift by will, when to include estates over which testator has a
general power of, 526.

By deed when to be valid without further observance of certain
solemnities, 687.

Power to appoint receiver incident to mortgage, 703.

See RECEIVER.

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APPORTIONMENT,

Of rights of common, 41.

Act for apportionment of rents, annuities, and other periodical
payments, 538-549.

Rents reserved on leases determining on the death of the person
making them, (though not strictly tenant for life,) or on the death
of the tenant pur autre vie, to be considered within stat. 11 Geo. 2,
c. 19, s. 15..539.

What cases come within stat. 11 Geo. 3, c. 19, s. 15, ib.

When there was an apportionment, and when not, 540.

Of composition for tithes, ib.

Of taxes between tenant for life and remainderman not made, 541.
Of rent amongst owners of reversion, 542.

To be made of all rents, annuities, and other payments becoming due
at fixed periods, 543.

Remedies for recovery of apportioned parts, ib.

Act does not apply to rents not reserved by writing, 544.

Of rent-charges and annuities, 547, 548.

Of dividends of companies, 548.

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