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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 27
Law of Property and Conveyancing
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Law of Property and Conveyancing.
(Candidates for admission as Solicitors need not answer Questions 14 and 15.)
| 1. | What is waste? What estates are subject to the law of waste, and what are the remedies therefor? |
| 2. | Explain the doctrines of general occupancy and special occupancy, and state the present law on the subject. |
| 3. | What do you understand by a condition precedent? Draw a short contract in which payment of money is made to depend upon a condition precedent. |
| 4. | How do tenants in common convey and covenant? |
| 5. | What is an estate by curtesy? Has this estate been affected in any way by recent legislation? |
| 6. | What are the periods of limitation in actions on (a) simple contracts; (b) specialities; (c) actions for land? |
| 7. | What is the time and nature of the enjoyment necessary to obtain a title by prescription to (a) a right-of-way; (b) light and air? |
| 8. | Explain the doctrine of waiver as applied to a power of re-entry in a lease. Mention some acts which have been held evidence of waiver. Is there any difference as to the effect of waiver of such right in respect of a covenant not to assign, and one not to underlet? |
| 9. | Can an infant make a marriage settlement; and, if so, how? |
| 10. | In preparing a mortgage relying on the provisions of the Conveyancing Ordinance, would you consider it necessary to add to or to modify those provisions? |
| 11. | What are the rules as to the periods of time for which an estate may be limited? |
| 12. | State the provisions of the Wills Act as to the date from which the will is to speak, and as to lapsed and void devises, and the effect of such provisions respectively. |
| 13. | How is the ownership of a ship evidenced, transferred, and mortgaged? |
| 14. | Can a person effectively charge property to be acquired in futuro; and, if so, by what means? |
| 15. | How would you effect a partition of land owned by joint tenants? How would this be done in England? |