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Notice to quit
the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, applies, in which case, by s. 25 of that Act, a notice must be given to
Substantive capacity
Substantive capacity, means capacity other than an officiating or temporary capacity and would imply that the holder thereof had a lien on his post, Prem Nath Sharma v. Vice-Chancellor, Lucknow, University, AIR 1959 All 618.
Allotments
of parish land or land originally allotted under inclosure Acts for the benefit of the poor. The Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (Part II.), empowers parish, urban, borough or county councils to provide plots of land
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Magna Carta
freeman of our realm, for us and our heirs for ever, these liberties, underwritten, to have and to hold to them and their heirs, of us and our heirs for ever.' The 2nd chapter relates to the
Office
word 'office' does not necessarily imply that it must have an existence apart from the person, who may hold it. Cases are known, in which, in order to make use of the special knowledge, talent, skill or
Fee-simple
estate, which appears to have been adopted by every subsequent writer. His language is this:- A person who holds 'in fee-simple is he which hath lands or tenements to hold to him and his heirs for ever.
Duly licensed
Duly licensed, means (a) he does not hold a licence, (b) he holds a fake licence, (c) he holds a licence but the validity thereof has
Fixtures
a Dutch barn, formed of uprights rising from a foundation of brick. (b) For agricultural purposes. The Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, s. 22 (see that title), abrogating, as did the Acts of 1883 and 1908, the rule
Held
has been interpreted as meaning 'to have as tenant'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Fourth Edition), the distinction between holding and occupation is sought to be brought out by quoting the following observations by Littledale, J. in R.
Married women's property
provided that a married woman, whether married before or after the Act, (1) should be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing, by will or otherwise, of any real or personal property as her separate property, in the
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