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Lease and licence

Municipal Board, Bareilly, AIR 1974 SC 396 (398): (1974) 1 SCC 202. (Transfer of Property Act, s. 105; Easements Act, s. 52) The difference between a 'lease' and 'licence' is to be determined by finding out the

Air

Air. As to the right to the enjoyment of air free and unpolluted, see Gale on Easements, and Goddard on Easements; but the claim to air is usually made good under a claim to light

survey

survey a property diagram that indicates legal boundaries, easements, encroachments, rights of way, improvement locations, etc. Surveys are conducted by licensed surveyors and are normally required by

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Seisin, Livery of

of a fee or feudal estate. Applicable to corporeal hereditaments while incorporeal hereditaments such as a remainder or easement were conveyed by writing under seal. After the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106),

Property

2003), s. 2(1) (v)] Property, means tangible property capable of being forcibly destroyed and does not includes an easement of customary right, see Rudraraju Ramaraju v. Emperor, AIR 1930 Mad 973; Sumitra v. Dhannu, AIR 1952 Nag

Restrictive Covenant

the land, and see s. 20 (11), ibid. Such a covenant is in the nature of an equitable easement restricting the use or enjoyment or certain land for the benefit of other land and binding on every

Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884

three Ridings and partly elsewhere should, as to the lands in the Riding, be registered there. See also EASEMENT.

Support

would do if his neighbour dug away the surface of his land to the very edge, Goddard on Easements. The right of an owner to the support of surface in its natural position is a presumption of

Tack

of another especially in order to satisfy the statutory time period for acquiring title to or a prescriptive easement in the property of a third party, Hall v. Kerlee, 461 S.E. 2d 911 (1995).

Water and watercourse

only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the

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