Cupboard - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cupboardBeaufet
A niche cupboard or sideboard for plate china glass etc a buffet...
Buffet
A cupboard or set of shelves either movable or fixed at one side of a room for the display of plate china etc a sideboard...
Court cupboard
A movable sideboard or buffet on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions...
Cupboard
A board or shelf for cups and dishes...
Almonarium
Almonarium, a kind of safe or cupboard in which broken victuals were laid up to be distributed among the poor, Old Records...
Aumbry, Aumber
Aumbry, Aumber [fr. armoire, Fr.; armario, almario, Sp.; almer, Germ.; armaria, almaria, M. Lat.; a cupboard], a place where the arms, plates, vessels, and everything belonging to housekeeping were kept....
Fixtures
Fixtures. Things of an accessory character which are not something which is part of the original struc-ture, Boswell v. Crucible Steel Co., (1925) 1 KB 119, annexed to houses or lands, which become, immediately on annexation, part of the realty itself, i.e., governed by the same law which applies to the land, in conformity with the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit. The application of this legal principle, however, is not uniform, as may be thus shown:(1) Between landlord and tenant. If the chattels be not let into the soil, they are not fixtures at all, and may be removed at will, like any other species of personal property. When the chattel is connected with the free-hold, by being let into the earth, or by being cemented or otherwise united to some erection attached to the ground, the question arises-when may the tenant remove such fixtures?The general rule as to annexations made by a tenant during the continuance of his term is the following-Whenever he has affixed anything...
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