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Receiver

court; and by s.19 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, reproduced and extended to mortgages of certain incorporated hereditaments, such as rentcharges or annual income, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 101, in the

Real action

Real action, one brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, and hereditaments. Among the civilians, real actions, otherwise called vindications, are those in which a man demanded something that was

Re-entry

be any breach of the lessee's covenants. A proviso for re-entry, strictly speaking, is only applicable to corporeal hereditaments; see Sitwell v. Londesborough (Earl of), (1905) 1 Ch 465. A proviso for re-entry for breach of covenant

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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

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

Premises

statutes, e.g., (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, where 'premises' includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements, tenements and hereditaments of any tenure. Include any shop, stall, or place where any article of good is sold or manufactured

Possibility

and he shall marry another. See next title. A possibility coupled with an interest in any tene-ments or hereditaments, of any tenure, whether the object of the gift or limitation of such possibility be or be not

Quarter-rating

now as to exemptions, total or otherwise, from rates in the case of agricultural, industrial and freight transport hereditaments, see the Rating and Valuation Acts, 1925 to 1932; Bailey v. Stoke on Trent Assessment Committee, etc., (1931)

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

Dedi et concessi

after the 1st October, 1845, does not imply any covenant in law in respect of any tenements or hereditaments, except so far as the word 'give' or the word 'grant' may, by force of any Act of

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