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Land Commissioners, the title by the (English) Settled Land Act, 1882, s. 48, of the Commissioners formerly called 'The Copyhold Inclosure and Tithe Commissioners.' By s. 26 of that Act, a certificate of these Commissioners that an 'improvement' within that Act has been effected is, in the absence of an Order of the Court, an authority to trustees to pay for the improvement out of 'capital money,' and by s. 28 a tenant for life must maintain and repair an 'improvement' at his own expense during such period, if any, as the Commissioners by certificate in any case prescribe.All powers and duties of the Land Commissioners were transferred to the Board of Agriculture by the (English) Board of Agriculture Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 30)....
Torrens system
Torrens system [after Sir Robert Torrens (1814-1884), British pioneer in Australia] : a title registration system used esp. in Massachusetts, Hawaii, Illinois, and Minnesota NOTE: When a certificate of title is first applied for in the Torrens system, the title is searched or examined, a court hearing is held (as in a land court), and a decree confirming title and ordering registration (as with the registrar of deeds) is issued. A certificate of title is then given to the owner, after which the property may be conveyed by executing deeds, delivering the certificate of title to be cancelled, and issuing a new certificate to the new owner. The title registered in a Torrens system is usually guaranteed and marketable, making title insurance unnecessary and greatly reducing the time spent researching the state of the title during subsequent conveyances. ...
Development
Development, means the carring out of building, engineering,mining or other operations in, on over or under land or the making of any material change on any building or land, or planting of any tree on land and includes development. [Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), s. 2(c)]Development with its grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material change in any building or land and includes redevelopment. [Delhi Development Act, 1957, s. 2(d)]The word 'development' in, s. 10(20A) of the IT Act, should be understood in its wide sense. There is no warrant to exclude all development programmes relating to any industry from the purview of the word 'development' in the said sub-section. There is no indication in the Act that development envisaged therein should confine to non-industrial activities. Development of a place can be accelerated through vari...
Extent
Extent, the peculiar remedy to recover debts of record due to the Crown; it differs from an ordinary writ of execution at the suit of a subject, because under it the body, lands, and goods of the debtor may all be taken at once, in order to compel the payment of the debt. It is not usual, however, to seize the body.There are two kinds of Extent--in chief and in aid. (1) Extent in chief. It issues from the Exchequer, and may bear teste and be made returnable on any day certain in term of vacation (5 & 6 Vict. c. 86, s. 8). It directs the sheriff to take an inquisition or inquest of office, on the oaths of lawful men, to ascertain the lands, etc., of the debtor, and seize the same into the King's hands. The writ should be preceded by a cire facias in order to bring the debtor into Court, and afford him an opportunity to show cause against it; but where the debt is in danger of being lost, the extent will be issued without a scire facias upon an affidavit of circumstances; and after the s...
property
property pl: -ties [Anglo-French propreté proprieté, from Latin proprietat- proprietas, from proprius own, particular] 1 : something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, interest, possession abandoned property : property to which the owner has relinquished all rights NOTE: When property is abandoned, the owner gives up the reasonable expectation of privacy concerning it. The finder of abandoned property is entitled to keep it, and a police officer may take possession of abandoned property as evidence without violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. after-acquired property 1 : property (as proceeds) that a debtor acquires after the commencement of a bankruptcy case and that is usually considered part of the bankruptcy estate 2 : property acquired after the perfection of a lien or security interest ;esp : such property acquired after the creation of a lien or security interest that is subject to the lien or...
Encroachment and unauthorised construction
Encroachment and unauthorised construction, there is a distinction between the two concept namely unauthorised construction and raising of construc-tion or encroached land. As far as the first facet is concerned, it fundamentally conveys that a con-struction has been raised without obtaining approved plan or map from the competent au-thority, raising of construction in total transversion of the master plan and rasing of a construction without sanctioned plan or map and in deviation in the construction which are within the compound-able on one's own land. As far as the second facet i.e. construction on the raising land is concerned it is construction raised by a person on the land of the State Government or any public authority, Panital Chowk v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1906 NOC 299....
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...
Pratique
Primarily liberty of converse intercourse hence a certificate given after compliance with quarantine regulations permitting a ship to land passengers and crew a term used particularly in the south of Europe...
Clearance area
Clearance area. Under the Housing Acts, 1930-35, substantially reproduced by the Housing Act,1936, the local authority may (see ss. 25 et seq., 1936 Act) declare any area in their district to be a clearance area where they are satisfied that the houses there are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects or bad arrangement either of the houses or streets dangerous to the health of the inhabitants in the area, and after marking off on a map of the area and excluding from the area any building which is not unfit for human habitation or dangerous and injurious to health, they may, by a clearance order obtained from the Minister of Health, see Errington v. Minister of Health, 1935 (1) KB 249, and subject to formalities under ss. 51-53 of the H. Act, 1936, and if the owner has not obtained a certificate of re-conditioning fitness, order the demolition of the buildings in the area or purchase the land compulsorily or by agreement, or themselves secure the demolition of the buildings. A limit...
Public Building
Public Building, include building used or cons-tructed or adopted to be used as place of public worship, or as hospital, college, school, hotel, restaurant, public lecture room, public exhibition, etc. or used or constructed or adopted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally for any other similar public purpose said public purpose is not relatable to use of land by government but user thereof which is means for public at large, AIR 2006 (NOC) 568 (P&H)....
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