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Run with the land-Run with the reversion. A covenant is said to 'run with the land,' either leased or conveyed in fee, when either the liability to perform it, or the right to take advantage of it, passes to the assignee of that land. A covenant is said to 'run with the reversion' to land leased when either the liability to perform it, or the right to take advantage of it, passes to the assignee of that reversion. Consult Spencer's case, (1583) 1 Sm LC 1, where a list of the covenants running with the land and not so running is given; and see, too, Woodfall, L & T.; Dyson v. Forster, 1909 AC 98.The benefit of a covenant made after 1925 running with the land is to be deemed to be made with the covenantee, his successors in title and the persons deriving title under him or them; and in connection with restrictive covenants, 'successors in title' includes owners and occupiers for the time being of the land intended to be benefited (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 78). S. 58 of the Conveyanc...
Bock-land, Boc-land, or Book-land
Bock-land, Boc-land, or Book-land, one of the original modes of tenure of manor-land, also called charter-land or deep-land, which was held by a short and simple deed under certain rents and free services, and in effect differed in no respect from the free-socage lands, whence have arisen most of the free-hold tenants, who hold of particular manors and owe suit and service to the same.-2 Bl. Com. 90. And see An Inquiry into the Royal Prerogative in England, by John Allen, 1839, 143-151; and FOLC-LAND....
Contract for sale of land
Contract for sale of land. The incidents of a contract for sale of land re regulated partly by statute and partly by the practice of conveyancers. A contract for sale of land must be in writing, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 40. See FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. If the contract is a simple, unconditional, or open contract for sale of land, it is implied that the vendor is to make a good title to the land for an estate in fee simple free from incumbrances, Hughes v. Parker, 8 M & W 344. He is under an obligation to show a good title (in ordinary circumstances for the thirty years preceding the date of contract, see ABSTRACT), and to prove that title by sufficient evidence. the expenses of showing the title, i.e., the abstract, falls on the vendor and so also the expenses of production of material documents in his possession or in that of his trustees an mortgagees. The expenses of production for verification of those which are not in such possession are to be borne by the purchaser, (English) L.P....
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Transfer of Land Acts (English)
Transfer of Land Acts (English). The Land Registry Act, 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 53), and the Land Transfer Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 87), were passed to facilitate the transfer of land in England. The Acts were practically a dead letter: see Report of Select Committee of House of Commons on Land Titles and Transfers, 1879. Compulsory registration on Order of Council not dissented from by the local county council was introduced by the Land Transfer Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65). The first Order in Council (18th July, 1898) applied compulsory registration to the Administrative County of London as from specified dates; this Act has been superseded by the Land Registration Act, 1925 (see REGISTRATION OF TITLE), and as to the previous Acts, Fortescue-Brickdale and Sheldon's Land Transfer Acts. The L.T. Act, 1897, Part I., established a 'Real Representative,' see that title....
Urban land
Urban land, means the land situated in such munici-pal area and the areas in the periphery there of as may be notified by the State Government and different limits of periphery areas may be notified for different classes of municipal areas. [Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 3(h)]Urban land, means, (i) any land situated within the limits of an urban agglomeration and referred to as such in the master plan; or (ii) In a case where there is no master plan, or where the master plan does not refer to any land as urban land, any and within the limits of an urban agglomeration and situated in any areas included within the local limits of a municipality (by whatever name called), a notified area committee, town area committee. A city and town committee, a small town committee, a cantonment board or a panchayat, but does not include any such land which is mainly used for the purpose of agriculture, Union of India v. Valluri Basavaiah Chowdhary, AIR 1979 SC 1415: (1979) 3 SCC 324: (1979) 3 S...
Waste land, and arable land
Waste land, and arable land, the expression 'waste land' as contrasted to 'arable land' would, therefore, mean 'land which is unfit for cultivation or habitation, desolate and barren land with little or no vegetation thereon, Raja Anand Brahma Shah v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1967 SC 1081 (1085): (1967) 1 SCR 373. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 17(1)(u)]...
Land grabbing
Land grabbing, grabbing of any land must be without any lawful entitlement and with a view to take possession of such lands illegally, Gouri Satya Reddy v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, (2004) 7 SCC 398: AIR 2004 SC 3661. [Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 (12 of 1982), s. 2(e)]Means in order to constitute an act of land grabbing, an attempt to dispossess must be followed by actual dispossession which would then constitute land grabbing so as to attract the penal provision, N. Srinivasa Rao v. Special Court under A.P. Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, (2006) 4 SCC 214: 2006 (3) SCALE 386: 2006 (3) Supreme 145: 2006 (5) SLT 1: 2006 (4) SCJ 328: 2006 (6) SCJD 372: 2006 (4) SRJ 418. [A.P. Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982, s. 2(e) & (d)]...
Suit for land
Suit for land, a 'suit for land' is a suit in which the relief claimed relates to title to or delivery of possession of land or immovable property. Whether a suit as a 'suit for land' or not has to be determined on the averments in the plaint with reference to the reliefs claimed therein; where the relief relates to adjudication of title to land or immovable property or delivery of possession of the land or immovable property, it will be a 'suit for land', Adcon Electronics Pvt. Ltd. v. Daulat, AIR 2001 SC 3712 (3715). [Letters Patent of Bombay High Court, C.P. 12]...
Folc-land
Folc-land, the land of the folk or people. It was the property of the community. It might be occupied in common or possessed in severalty: and in the latter case, it was probably parcelled out to individuals in the fole-gemot or Court of the district: and the grant sanctioned by the freemen there present. But while it continued to be folc-land it could not be alienated in perpetuity; and therefore, on the expiration of the term for which it had been granted, it reverted to the community, and was again distributed by the same authority. Spelman describes folc-land as terra popularis qu' jure communi possidetur-sine scripto (Gloss. Voce Folc-land). In another placehe distinguishes it accurately from bocland: Pr'dia Saxones duplici titulo possidebant: vel scripti auctoritate, quod bocland vocabant, vel populi testimonio, quod folcland dixere (ibid. voce Bocland).Folc-land was subject to many burthens and exactions from which bocland was exempt. The possessors of folc-land were bound to as...
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