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Rate

council. The general rate is raised on so much in the pound on the rateable value of each hereditament in rateable occupation according to the valuation list. Contributions required by bodies such as the county council entitled

Presentation

church and benefice is now 'land' (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205), and previously was an incorporeal hereditament, but if the benefice has become vacant, the nature of the right of presentation is altered: it becomes

Prescription

4, p. 421. There are two kinds of prescription, viz.: (1) negative, which relates to realty or corporeal hereditaments, whereby an uninterrupted possession for a given time gives the occupier a valid and unassilable title, by depriving

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Ouster

Ouster, dispossession. A wrong or injury that may be sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carry-ing with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual

Valuation list

Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, in England outside the county of London, a list of all the rateable hereditaments in a rating area (and not in a parish) is to be prepared by the rating authority, i.e.,

Occupancy

3, that an estate pur autre vie, of whatever tenure, and whether it be an incorporeal or corporeal hereditament, may in all cases be devised by will, and, by s. 6, that if no disposition by will

Priority

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)), as well as all equitable interests in capital money, and securities representing

King's silver

of Common Pleas for a licence granted to a man to levy a fine of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another person; and this must have been compounded, according to the value of the land, in the

Mortmain

1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42), which provides that 'land''which term, by s. 10, includes tenements and hereditaments corporeal and incorporeal of whatsoever tenure, and any estate and interest in land (e.g., a mortgage)--shall not be

Personal action

redress for breach of contract, or other injuries, of whatever description, the specific recovery of lands, tenements, and hereditaments only excepted. The term has been used in a narrower sense to express an action for injury to

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