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Property Law Act 1958
249Tenancies in tail to pass the fee-simple 202
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249 Tenancies in tail to pass the fee-simple 202
250 Where successive life estates are given to parent and child with estate tail to grandchild parent and child may bar the entail as if the estate tail were given to the child 202
251 Power to tenants in tail in possession to dispose of land by specific devise or bequest 203
252 Power to dispose of lands entailed saving the rights of certain persons 204
253 Acknowledgments of deeds 205
254 Certificate to be evidence of acknowledgment 205
255 Extent of the estate created by a tenant in tail by way of mortgage or for any other limited purpose 205
256 A voidable estate by a tenant in tail in favour of a purchaser 206
257 Tenant in tail to make a disposition by deed as if seised in fee but not by contract 207
258 Assurance by a tenant in tail to be inoperative unless acknowledged 207
259 Equity excluded from giving any effect to dispositions by tenants in tail which in courts of law would not be effectual 208
260 Trustee in bankruptcy in the case of the bankruptcy of a tenant in tail by deed to dispose of the land of the bankrupt to a purchaser 208
261 A voidable estate created in favour of a purchaser by a tenant in tail becoming bankrupt confirmed by the disposition of the trustee 209
262 Acts of a bankrupt tenant in tail void against any disposition under this Act by the trustee 209
263 The disposition by the trustee of the land of a bankrupt tenant in tail to have operation in the event of his death 210
264 A bankrupt tenant in tail to retain his powers of disposition 210
265 Trustee to recover rents of the lands of a bankrupt of which the trustee has power to make disposition 210
266 Application of previous clauses to lands to be sold where the purchase money is subject to be invested in the purchase of lands to be entailed 211
Part VII—Survey boundaries 213
267 Definition 213
268 Crown survey boundaries as marked on the ground to be deemed the true boundaries 213
269 Crown grant or lease to be deemed to convey the land within the survey boundaries 213
270 As to aliquot parts of Crown sections having excess of area 214
271 How Crown survey boundaries may be proved in the absence of survey marks 214
272 Margin of error allowed in description of boundaries 215
273 Provisions of Part to apply to land under general law and Transfer of Land Act 1958 216
Part VIII—Recovery of property etc. on determination of a life or lives 217