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    Old System Title Legal Interests under Old System Title S184G CA: priority given to the earlier same as s 12 of the former Registration and Deeds Act. If the four elements are satisfied‚ namely: 1. Instrument relating to the land (excludes wills) must be effective and not void 2. Made in good faith a. There must be no fraud – Re Cooper b. It must be bona fide - Marsden v Campbell c. Notice only effective after registration‚ no notice before registration‚ but after settlement – Scholes

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    – Encumbrances‚ Liens‚ and Homesteads 1. A property tax bill is an example of: (a) a voluntary lien (b) a general lien (c) an involuntary lien (d) two of the above are correct 2. An easement with only a servient tenement: (a) easement in gross (b) easement appurtenant (c) easement egress (d) easement for encumbrance 3. If an owner files a proper Notice of Completion in the County Recorder’s office‚ unpaid subcontractors have how many

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    “Chinatown as a spectacle is disappointing.The houses are chiefly of the conventional tenement house-type‚ with nothing to rescue them from the everyday dismal dreariness of their kind save here and there a splash of dull red or yellow‚ a sign‚ hung endways and streamers of red flannel tacked on‚” (Riis 72) The people in china town did not

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    life‚ or never had any” (Riis‚ 2010‚ p. 5). The lives of those who was rich and lived on top cared little of how the other half was living. With an abundance of people living in tenement buildings‚ most rooms were dark‚ unhealthy‚ and unventilated apartments‚ which caused so many children death due to suffocation. The tenements were left unkempt‚ the buildings were dilapidation‚ and left filthy by the tenets. Over the past forty years‚ disease spread through the city which causes the population to decline

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    and levies excluding any market where state finance is involved‚ 3) Bicycle‚ truck canoe‚ wheelbarrow and cart fees‚ other than a mechanical propelled truck‚ Permits and fines charged by Customary Courts Local Government Business Investment‚ 4) Tenement Rate Fees from schools established by the local governments Shops and kiosks rate‚ 5) on and off Liquor Licence fees‚ Slaughter slab fees‚ 6) Marriage‚ birth and death registration fees. 7) Naming of street registration fee‚ excluding any street

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    perceptions of the rape. Likewise‚ domestic violence against women increased in the homes‚ especially in the tenement dwellings of urban New Yorkers. Cases of severe beatings and murder were often‚ usually caused by drunkenness on behalf of either the man or the woman. The majority of the experiences of the lower-class female work force was bleak‚ but there were a few‚ and very minor‚ exceptions. One such exception can be found within the youthful work force of the Eastern side of New York‚ on

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    000 immigrants were living in were called tenements. They were pieces of old buildings and some new all brought together and built up to a great

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    works most of their life‚ and get little pay. Workers were not very educated. Working class are different from middle and upper class. Working class is the lowest of all. Working class lives in a tenement with other fmailys. Tenement was build to maximize the use of space. Working class shares tenement because they are cheaper. Working class keep their home close to workplace due to the lack of transportation and money. Women and children are put to work‚ everyone in the family needed to work for

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    1. Why‚ according to Abram‚ are conversations about immigration important in the context of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum? Abram says conversations about immigration are important due the lack of knowledge Americans have today about how their ancestors immigrating to the U.S. is very similar to why immigrants come to America today. Not only why immigrants came to America but what was life like. It looks like Abram wanted to fix the social norm of fear and hatred to immigrants today but found

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    regulation of the industry‚ as well as the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. In Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York(1890)‚ Riis showed through photo journalism how people in lower class communities lived. In How the Other Half Lives he describes the system of tenement housing that had failed‚ as he claims‚ due to greed and neglect from wealthier people. He claims a correlation between the high crime rate‚ drunkenness and reckless

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