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Privies

Privies in representation, as executors or administrators to their deceased testator or intestate. (3) Privies in estate, as grantor and grantee, lessor and lessee, assignor and assignee, etc. (4) Privities, in respect of contract, are personal privities,

Quando aliquid conceditur id etiam conceditur sine quo res ipsa non esse potest

quando aliquid conceditur id etiam conceditur sine quo res ipsa non esse potest is always true is between grantor and grantee, but that does not necessarily apply as against third parties, Raja Maharaj Kumar Satya Niranjan Chakravarti

Quamdiu se bene gesserit

shall not be guilty of abusing them-the opposite clause being durante bene placito (during the pleasure of the grantor), as that of town clerk, which office is held during the pleasure of the town council.

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Proviso

in the words of, and binding upon, both parties; whereas the latter is in the words of the grantor only. At the same time a proviso or condition may be construed as a covenant or agreement if

Parol evidence

become obscure from antiquity; (3) where the grant is uncertain owing to a want of acquaintance with the grantor's estate; (4) where it is important to show a consideration or a different consideration consistent with, and not

Possession is nine points of the law

the weakness of his antagonists. For instance, if the claimant be able to show a descent from the grantor of the estate, perfect except in one link of the chain, and the man in possession be a

Pattas

of cultivation or grazing of cattle with the express reservation of the trees on the land to the grantor, the question of grant of sub-soil rights by implication does not arise, State of Mysore v. Swamy Satyanand

Non concessit

because estoppels do not hold with respect to strangers. This plea brought into issue the title of the grantor as well as the operation of the deed. See now PLEADING.

Modus legem dat donationi

Modus legem dat donationi [Lat.], the grantor can impose conditions on the grant.

Lord and vassal

Lord and vassal. In the feudal system the grantor of land, who retained the dominion or ultimate property, is called the lord, and the grantee, who had

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