235Definitions

235 Definitions

In this Part unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter—

assurance means any deed or instrument (other than a will) by which any land is conveyed or transferred at law or in equity;

descent means the title to inherit land by reason of consanguinity as well where the heir is an ancestor or collateral relation as where he is a child or other issue;

descendants of any ancestor includes all persons who must trace their descent through such ancestor;

land includes messuages and all other hereditaments whether corporeal or incorporeal and whether freehold or of any other tenure and money to be laid out in the purchase of land and chattels and other personal property transmissible to heirs and also any share of the same hereditaments and properties or any of them and any estate of inheritance or estate for any life or lives or other estate transmissible to heirs and any possibility right or title of entry or action and any other interest capable of being inherited and whether the same estates possibilities rights titles and interest or any of them are in possession reversion remainder or contingency;

the person last entitled to land includes the last person who had a right thereto whether he did or did not obtain the possession or the receipt of the rents and profits thereof;

the purchaser means the person who last acquired the land otherwise than by descent or than by any escheat partition or enclosure by the effect of which the land became part of or descendible in the same manner as other land acquired by descent.

No. 3754 s. 236.