operation of la

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operation of la - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  OPERATION OF LAW. This term is applied to those rights which are cast upon a 
  party by the law, without any act of his own; as, the right to an estate of 
  one who dies intestate, is cast upon the heir at law, by operation of law; 
  when a lessee for life enfeoffs him in reversion, or when the lessee and 
  lessor join in a feoffment, or when a lessee for life or years accepts a new 
  lease or demise from the lessor, there is a surrender of the first lease by 
  operation of law. 9 B. & C. 298; 5 B. & C. 269; 2 B. & A. 119; 5 Taunt. 518.