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Tenancy in Common
assurance by them. Each tenant-in-common has, in contemplation of law, a distinct tenement and a distinct freehold. Tenants-in-common hold by unity of possession, because neither of them knows his own severalty, and therefore they all occupy promiscuously.
Year to year, tenancy from
on that point, must be at least half a year'' (not merely six months'), or where the Agricultural Holdings Act applies, one year's notice to give up possession at the expiration of the year, computing from the
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tenant
tenant [Anglo-French, from Old French, from present participle of tenir to hold, from Latin tenēre] : one who holds or possesses property by any kind of right : one who
Beneficial owner
shares as his own, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 2183, p. 2182; Brookland Selangor Holdings Ltd. v. IRC, (1970) 2 All ER 76: (1970) 1 WLR 429; Baytrust Holdings Ltd. v. IRC, (1971)
Coparceners or parceners
the other coparceners there was a tenancy in common. the remaining coparceners would, as between themselves, continue to hold in coparcenary. They were seised both jointly and severally, and possessed a unity of title, but the estate
Craftsman
Craftsman, is a worker who is 20 years of age or over and holds a valid craft certificate or is a qualified former Board apprentice and hold a valid craft certificate or
Distress
modo' or conditionally, that is, only if there be other sufficient distress on the premises. Also, on agricultural holdings; (13) Hired machinery and breeding stock absolutely; and (14) Agisted stock, conditionally. A distress cannot be made in
Forfeiture
contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled to the land. But the British Nationality and Status
Mortmain
statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious and other corporations, which were supposed to hold them in a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord, the fruits
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