Demisable

Demise

Demise, a grant; it is applied to an estate either in fee or for term of life or years, but most commonly to the latter; it is used in writs for any estate, 2 Inst. 483.The operative word 'demise' in a lease implies a covenant on the part of the lessor for the lessee's quiet enjoyment during the term, Hart v. Windsor, (1843) 12 M&W 85; Markham v. Paget, (1908) 1 Ch 697; but an express covenant for quiet enjoyment excludes any implied one, Line v. Stephenson, (1838) 4 Bing NC 678.Of the Crown. The death of the sovereign, demissio regis vel coron', an expression which signifies merely a transfer of property; for when we say the demise of the Crown, we mean only that in consequence of the disunion of the sovereign's natural body from his body politic, the kingdom is transferred or demised to his successor, and so the royal dignity remains perpetual, Plowd. 177. See (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707 (6 Anne, c. 41) (c. 7 as commonly printed), s. 8, as to continuance for six month...

Capable of being leased as a demisable estate...

Re-demise

Re-demise, a re-granting of land demised or released....

demise

demise de·mised de·mis·ing : to convey (possession of property) by will or lease [the demised premises] n [Anglo-French, from feminine past participle of demettre to convey by lease, from Old French, to put down, give up, renounce, from Latin demittere to let fall and dimittere to release] 1 : the conveyance of property by will or lease : lease 2 : the transmission of property by testate or intestate succession 3 : charter of a boat in which the owner surrenders completely the possession, command, and navigation of the boat called also bareboat charter ...

Crown, demise of

Crown, demise of. See DEMISE....

Demise of the crown

Demise of the crown, A 'demise of the crown' refers to the death of a monarch and is used to describe the transfer of the kingdom to his or her successor, Hill v. Grange, (1555) 1 Plowd 164....

Surrender of the demised estate

Surrender of the demised estate, means yielding up of the estate to the landlord, so that the leasehold interest becomes extinct by mutual agreement between the parties or by operation of law. It does not involve alienation of an estate. Under a surrender, the landlord resumes possession of the property without opposition from the tenant. The term 'surrender' is well-known to law and generally distinguished from abandonment which is another term that does not involve transfer, Mubarak Husain v. Custodian-General of Evacuee Property, New Delhi, AIR 1957 Punj 197....

Demised premises

Demised premises, that the intention of the parties was to create relationship of landlord and tenant, (1999) 4 SCC 545....

Demise and redemise

Demise and redemise, mutual leases of the same land, or something out of it. It was properly used upon the grant of a rentcharge, etc....

Copyhold

Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth.A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devol...

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