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Heritable Rights, all rights to land, or whatever is connected with land, as mills, fishing, tithes, etc., Scots term....
Tenancy
Tenancy [fr. tenentia, law Lat.], the condition of a tenant; the temporary possession of what belongs to another by his consent.1. The possession or occupancy of land by right or title esp. under a lease a leasehold interest in real estate 2. The Period of such possession or occupancy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Tenancy, is a heritable right unless a legal bar operating against heritability is shown to exist, Parvinder Singh v. Renu Gautam, (2004) 4 SCC 794.Tenancy, is a relationship between a landlord and a tenant and that relationship is in respect of a subject-matter, AIR 2006 NOC 272 (Bom).Means the possession or occupancy of land by right or title, especially under a lease, a leasehold interest in real estate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1477...
Hereditaments
Hereditaments, every kind of property that can be inherited; i.e., not only property which a person has by descent from his ancestors, but also that which he has by purchase, because his heir can inherit it from him. The two kinds of hereditaments are corporeal, which are tangible (in fact, they mean the same thing as land), and incorporeal, which are not tangible, and are the rights and profits annexed to, or issuing out of, land. It includes money held in trust to be laid out in land [Re Gosselin, (1906) 1 Ch 120].Any property that can be inherited; anything that passes by intestacy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 730.The enumeration of incorporeal hereditaments in Hale's Analysis (p. 48) is the following:-Rents, services, tithes, commons, and other profits in alieno solo, pensions, offices, franchises, liberties, villains, dignities. But Blackstone enumerates ten principal kinds:-Advowsons, tithes, commons, ways, offices, dignities, franchises, corodies or pensions, annuities,...
Sheriff (in Scotland)
Sheriff (in Scotland), the chief judge of a county, also called sheriff-substitute, the office of sheriff principal being an intermediate point of appeal between the sheriff-substitute and the Court of Session. His civil jurisdiction extends to all personal actions on contract, bond, or obligation, to the greatest extent; also, by 40 & 41 Vict. c. 50, s. 8, to actions relating to a heritable right where the value of the subject-matter does not exceed 50l. by the year or 1,000l. value, and to all possessory actions, as removings, spuilzies, etc., to all brieves issuing from Chancery in Scotland, as of inquest, terce, division, tutory, etc., and generally to all civil matters not specially committed to other courts. He has also a summary jurisdiction in regard to small debts, as well as a criminal jurisdiction....
heritable
heritable : inheritable ...
heritable obligation
heritable obligation see obligation ...
Heritability
The state of being heritable...
Heritable Bond
Heritable Bond, a bond for money, joined with a conveyance of land or heritage, to be held by a creditor as security for his debt, Scots term....
Heritable genetic material
Heritable genetic material, means genes or other genetic material, in any form, whether in cellular or sub-cellular entities, which are capable of being replicated or transferred by any means [See (English) Environment Protection Act, 1990, Pt. VI (ss. 106-127) (as amended)]...
Heritable Jurisdiction
Heritable Jurisdiction, grants of criminal jurisdic-tion, anciently bestowed on great families in Scotland, with a view to the more easy administra-tion of justice. Abolished by 20 Geo. 2, c. 43....
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