Hereditaments - Law Dictionary Search Results
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
Action
damages from the defendant; real actions, in which he sought to establish his title to land or other hereditaments; mixed actions, in which he sought only to establish his right to possession of land. All forms of
Agricultural rates
liable to one quarter only of the rate in the pound payable in respect of buildings and other hereditaments. These exemptions were preserved by the (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, s. 22, but agricultural land and
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Annuity
savings banks. Before 1926 an annuity not created by marriage settlement or will did not affect lands or hereditaments as against purchasers, mortgagees or creditors without notice unless it was registered, 18 & 19 Vict. c. 15,
Bargain and sale
1 and 2 (replaced by the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 51), declared that all corporeal tenements or hereditaments were to lie in grant as well as delivery, and must be made by deed, and the same
Cestui que vie
Cestui que vie, the person for whose life any lands, tenements, or hereditaments are held by another, who is called the tenant pur autre vie. See Autre Vie.
Charitable uses and trusts
take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person
Corruption of blood
corrupted or attainted both upwards and down wards, so that he could neither in her it lands nor hereditaments, retain the possession of those in his possession, nor transmit them by descent to any heir, but the
incorporeal
incorporeal : not tangible : having no material body or form [ hereditaments] [an right] compare corporeal
Droit-droit, or jus duplicatum
right of possession joined with the right of property, which makes a complete title to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. And when to this double right the actual possession is also united, when there is, according to the
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