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Year to year, tenancy from

a year'' (not merely six months'), or where the Agricultural Holdings Act applies, one year's notice to give up possession at

is devised to a corporation which is not capable of holding land as a trustee. It was formerly never advisable to

whatever, under the custom of the country, or the Agricultural Holdings Act, as would be due to him but for the

of law, a distinct tenement and a distinct freehold. Tenants-in-common hold by unity of possession, because neither of them knows his

his office. A steward may depute or authorize another to hold a Court; and the acts done in a Court so

Act of 1829 disables the religious orders therein mentioned to hold property in their corporate capacity. The Act does not, it

15th Sch. (1)] By s. 44 of the (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (see SMALL HOLDINGS), a local authority

[Anglo-French, from Old French, from present participle of tenir to hold, from Latin tenēre] : one who holds or possesses property

The expression 'officer' in the dictionary sense means one who holds an office. In relation to companies or societies, it is

an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled to