A Treatise on Investments ...Effingham Wilson, 1852 - 192 pages |
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9 per cent act of parliament advowson amount annual annuity annum ascertained become building societies calculation capitalist CHAPTER charges chase client companies compound interest conditions of sale conveyance copyhold property corn laws Court of Chancery court of equity Covenants for title death debt debtor deduct deposits depreciation dispose dividends entitled expense fines and fees gage give ground rent heriot house property inadequacy of price income incumbent incurred joint-stock kind of investment land tax Landlord lease leasehold property lessee liability lord LORDSHIPS OF MANORS loss manor ment mort mortgage mortgagor owner paid partner partnership payable payment person perty Pound premises premium present value probable Purchase of Land purchase-money railway mania rate of interest recover renewal reversionary interest reversionary property sell shareholders shares sold stipulation Table tenant tion tithe rent-charge title deeds title-deeds trustee twenty unless usually vendor vendor's solicitor vestment دو وو
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Page 34 - ... twenty-one days next after any half-yearly day of payment, it shall be lawful for the person entitled to the same, after having given or left ten days, notice in writing at the usual or last known residence of the tenant in possession, to distrain upon the lands liable to the payment thereof, or...
Page 42 - It is clear that a creditor has an insurable interest in the life of his debtor...
Page 38 - ... merely a trustee or trustees of the patronage of the same, or of the person or one of the persons for whom the patron or patrons shall be a trustee or trustees, or of the person or one of the persons by whose direction such presentation, collation, gift, or bestowing shall be intended to be made...
Page 142 - ... 3 per cent. ? 4£ per cent. ? 5 per cent. ? 6 per cent. ? 7 per cent. ? 7£ per cent. ? 8 per cent.? 9 per cent. ? 10 per cent.
Page 14 - A lease for one year and so on from year to year, until the tenancy hereby created shall be determined as hereafter mentioned, with a provision that it should be lawful for either of the parties to determine the tenancy by three months...
Page 42 - A creditor has an insurable interest in the life of his debtor, to the extent of the debt ; but if the debt be discharged, the policy becomes void.
Page 38 - That every resignation to be made in pursuance of any such engagement as aforesaid shall refer to the engagement in pursuance of which it is made, and state the name of the person for whose benefit it is made ; and that it shall not be lawful for the ordinary to refuse such resignation, unless upon good and sufficient cause to be shown for that purpose ; and...
Page 28 - The leaning of the courts is against perpetual renewals : and therefore, in order to establish this construction, the intention...
Page 120 - What is the interest of $ 81, for 2 years 14 days, at ^ per cent. ? £• per cent. ? £ per cent. ? 2 per cent. ? 3 per cent. ? 4£ per cent. ? 5 per cent. ? 6 per cent. ? 7 per cent. ? 7£ per cent. ? 8 per cent.?
Page 13 - ... The auctioneer is the agent of the vendor, and the assent of both parties is necessary to make the contract binding ; that is signified on the part of the seller by knocking down the hammer, which was not done here till the defendant had retracted. An auction is not unaptly called locus pcenitentice.