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UNINA9910464162303321 |
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Musyoka William |
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Law of succession / / William Musyoka |
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Nairobi : , : LawAfrica, , [2006] |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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Inheritance and succession - Kenya |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; TABLE OF STATUTES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND LAW REPORTS; TABLE OF CASES; PART ONE -INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE -INTRODUCTION; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 BACKGROUND; 1.3 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCCESSION LAW AND OTHER AREAS OF LAW; 1.4 TESTATE AND INTESTATE SUCCESSION; CHAPTER TWO -HISTORY OF THE LAW OF SUCCESSION IN KENYA; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 THE LAW APPLYING TO AFRICANS; 2.3 THE LAW APPLYING TO MUSLIMS; 2.4 THE LAW APPLYING TO HINDUS; 2.5 THE LAW APPLYING TO EUROPEANS; CHAPTER THREE - THE LAW OF SUCCESSION APPLYING IN KENYA AFTER 1981 |
3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 THE LAW OF SUCCESSION ACT; 3.3 AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW; 3.4 AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW AND THE LAW OF SUCCESSION ACT; 3.5 ISLAMIC LAW; 3.6 ISLAMIC LAW AND THE LAW OF SUCCESSION ACT; 3.7 THE STATUTES REPEALED BY SECTION 99 OF THE LAW OF SUCCESSION ACT; 3.8 THE TRUSTEE ACT, THE TRUSTS OF LAND ACT,THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE ACT AND THE ARMED FORCES ACT; 3.9 LAW OF THE DOMICILE OF THE DECEASED OWNER OF MOVABLE PROPERTY; PART TWO -TESTATE SUCCESSION; CHAPTER FOUR -THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF WILLS; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 NATURE AND FUNCTION OF WILLS; 4.3 CHARACTERISTICS OF A WILL |
4.4 THE ADVANTAGES OF MAKING A WILL 4.5 PROPERTY PASSING UPON DEATH OTHER THAN BY WILL; 4.6 CONDITIONAL AND JOINT WILLS; CHAPTER FIVE -THE CREATION OF A VALID WILL; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; |
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5.2 CAPACITY; 5.3 KNOWLEDGE AND APPROVAL; 5.4 MARRIED WOMEN; 5.5 FORM; 5.6 THE DOCTRINE OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE; 5.7 VALIDITY OF WILLS OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THE LAW OF SUCCESSION ACT; 5.8 PRIVILEGED WILLS; CHAPTER SIX -REVOCATION, ALTERATION AND REVIVAL OF WILLS; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 REVOCATION; 6.3 EXPRESS REVOCATION; 6.4 IMPLIED REVOCATION; 6.5 REVOCATION BY DESTRUCTION |
6.6 PRESUMPTION CONCERNING REVOCATION BY DESTRUCTION 6.7 DOCTRINE OF CONDITIONAL REVOCATION; 6.8 REVOCATION BY MARRIAGE; 6.9 REVOCATION BY DIVORCE; 6.10 REVOCATION OF WRITTEN WILL BY ORAL WILL; 6.11 ALTERATION OF WILLS AND CODICILS; 6.12 REVIVAL OF WILLS; CHAPTER SEVEN -GIFTS BY WILL AND THEIR FAILURE; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 TYPES OF GIFTS; 7.3 DOCTRINE OF ELECTION; 7.4 PRESUMPTION OF SATISFACTION; 7.5 DOCTRINE OF ADEMPTION; 7.6 DOCTRINE OF LAPSE; 7.7 COMMENTATES OR SURVIVORSHIP; 7.8 MISTAKE, FRAUD AND UNDUE INFLUENCE; 7.9 UNCERTAINTY |
7.10 BENEFICIARY OR SPOUSE OF BENEFICIARY WITNESSING THE WILL 7.11 FORFEITURE; 7.12 DISCLAIMER; 7.13 PERPETUITY; 7.14 PRIVATE PURPOSE TRUSTS; CHAPTER EIGHT -CONSTRUCTION OF WILLS; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 THE COURT CONSTRUES WILLS, IT DOES NOT REMAKE THEM; 8.3 WORDS ARE CONSTRUED IN THEIR ORDINARY NATURAL SENSE; 8.4 THE WILL MUST BE READ AS A WHOLE; 8.5 THE WILL MUST SPEAK FOR ITSELF; 8.6 ASCERTAINING THE SUBJECT MATTER OF GIFTS; 8.7 ASCERTAINING THE BENEFICIARIES; 8.8 THE CLASS CLOSING RULES; PART THREE -INTESTACY; CHAPTER NINE -INTESTATE SUCCESSION; 9.1 INTRODUCTION |
9.2 EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN PROPERTY FROM THE INTESTACY PROVISIONS |
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This text broadly and comprehensively covers the area of law of succession in Kenya. It exposes the substantive succession legal regime applying in Kenya as well as the Kenyan probate practice. It is tailored specifically for the legal practitioner, the magistrate and judge, and the law student. Some of the key areas covered include; Testate Succession; Intestacy; Post-Mortem alterations among many others. It is currently the only text on succession law in Kenya. |
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UNINA9910787941103321 |
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Autore |
Duffley Patrick J. |
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Reclaiming control as a semantic and pragmatic phenomenon / / Patrick Duffley, Université Laval |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; ; Volume 251 |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Infinitival constructions |
Semantics |
Pragmatics |
Control (Linguistics) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Reclaiming Control as a Semantic and Pragmatic Phenomenon; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics - what is said and what is not; Chapter 2. The phenomenon of control; Chapter 3. The meaning of the to-Infinitive and of the Gerund-participle; Chapter 4. Control with the Infinitive and Gerund-participle in subject function; 1. Introduction; 2. Controller identified intra-sententially; 3. Controller identified extra-sententially |
Chapter 5. Control with the infinitive and gerund-participle as direct complement of another verb1. The gerund-participle; 2. The infinitive; 3. The explanation of control; 4. Verbs of choice; 5. Verbs of risk; Chapter 6. Control in structures with non-finite verb forms in both subject and complement functions; 1. Introduction; 2. The natural-language semantic categories involved in control structures with non-finite verb forms in both subject and complement functions; 2.1 The semantic content of the non-finite subject; 2.2 The lexical-semantic content of the main verb |
2.3 The semantic content of the complement2.4 The nature of the relationship between the non-finite subject and the main verb; 2.5 The |
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nature of the relationship between the complement and the main verb; 3. Verbs denoting entailment; 4. Verbs denoting risk; 5. Verbs denoting facilitation; 6. Verbs expressing the notion of requirement; 7. Verbs denoting inclusion and exclusion; 8. Verbs expressing avoidance; 9. Verbs denoting justification; 10. Conclusions; Chapter 7. Control in adjective + to-infinitive constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject=subject constructions |
3. Subject=object constructions4. Conclusions; Chapter 8. Control in verb + NP + to-infinitive constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. What the ICE-GB corpus shows; 3. What the ICE-GB doesn't show; 4. Conclusions; Chapter 9. Control in verb + to + gerund-participle vs. verb + to + infinitive constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Verbs expressing the notion of agreement; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The verb agree; 2.3 The verb consent; 2.4 The verb assent; 2.5 The verb acquiesce; 2.6 The verb accede; 2.7 The verb subscribe; 2.8 The verb submit; 2.9 The verb commit |
2.10 Conclusions on verbs expressing the notion of agreement3. Verbs expressing the notions of admitting and attesting; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The verb admit; 3.3 The verb confess; 3.4 The verb acknowledge; 3.5 The verb avow; 3.6 The verb own; 3.7 The phrasal verb own up to; 3.8 The verb attest; 3.9 The verb testify; 3.10 The verb swear; 3.11 The verb claim; 3.12 Conclusions; Chapter 10. Control in constructions composed of matrix verb + deverbal noun; 1. Introduction; 2. Verbs which have non-subject control with the gerund-participle |
3. Verbs which have subject control with the gerund-participle |
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This monograph is part of a growing research agenda in which semantics and pragmatics not only complement the grammar, but replace it. The analysis is based on the assumption that human language is not primarily about form, but about form-meaning pairings. This runs counter to the autonomous-syntax postulate underlying Landau (2013)'s Control in Generative Grammar that form must be hived off from meaning and studied separately. Duffley shows control to depend on meaning in combination with inferences based on the nature of the events expressed by the matrix and complement, the matrix subject, |
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