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Rent

relate to rent-charges or other rents not being rent incident to a reversion. If they are held in fee simple in possession or for a term of years absolute (see LEASE) they are legal estates. All other rent-charges

Priority

property were swept into this rule, viz., all equitable interests inland (i.e., all estates for less than a fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute and corresponding incorporeal hereditaments (see s. 1 of the Act)),

Jointure

legal estates now (English) (L.P. Act, s. 1), jointure lands which are settled and not consisting of the fee simple or a lease for years vested absolutely in the jointures may be over-reached upon conveyance to a purchaser … jointure lands which are settled and not consisting of the fee simple or a lease for years vested absolutely in the jointures may be over-reached upon conveyance to a purchaser of the land charged under the provisions

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ownership

esp. by a single person that is free of any encumbrances or limitations other than statutory law compare fee simple absolute at fee simple os·ten·si·ble ownership [Ä -sten-sə-bəl] : ownership that is apparent rather than actual and that sometimes

Personal property

as an absolute ownership in the subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee simple, can have is an estate. But in the case of personal property the primary rule is precisely the

Executory limitation

in instruments coming into operation after 1882 but before 1926, it only applies to imitations of land in fee simple or tail or for a term of years absolute or determinable on life or term of life.

Chattels or catals

land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are an estate in fee simple absolute in possession and a term of years absolute, and by s. 149 a lease at a rent or

Easement

same Act, s. 1(2), an easement in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute is capable of subsisting and being conveyed or created at

Limited owner

Limited owner. A tenant for life, in tail or by the courtesy, or other person not having a fee-simple in his absolute disposition. The legal estates of limited owners were reduced to equitable interests after 1925 by

Tenure

only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND).

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