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Landlord and tenant. A tenancy arises when the owner of an estate inland, called the lessor or landlord, agrees expressly or by implication to allow another person, called the lessee or tenant, to enjoy the exclusive possession and use of the land for a period less than the landlord's estate in it, generally upon payment of rent. The landlord's estate is called the reversion, and at common law, a power of distress for rent is incident to the reversion.Leases or tenancies may be (1) for any agreed period such as for years or less, e.g., for a year, half-year, quarter or week; (2) from year to year; (3) at will; (4) on sufferance; or (5) they may arise upon estoppel; or (6) exist by force of a statute (see LEASE; INCREASE OF RENT). In a narrower sense the words 'tenancy' and 'landlord and tenant' are generally restricted to lease of a house or land for occupational purposes. If nothing appears to the contrary, either expressly or by implication, in the lease or agreement, the landlord is...
Landlord
Landlord, he of whom land or tenements are holden; who has a right to distrain for rent in arrear, etc., Co. Litt. 57. See Foa or Woodfall on Landlord and Tenant, and also the (English) Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 70.Includes the person who is receiving or is entitled to receive the rent of a building, whether on his own account or on behalf of another or on behalf of himself and others or as an agent, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver or guardian or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive the rent, Raval and Co. v. K.G. Ramachandran, AIR 1974 SC 818: (1974) 1 SCC 424: (1974) 2 SCR 629.Mean a person who is the owner of the building and who has a right to remain in occupation and actual possession of the building to the exclusion of everyone else. It is such a person who can seek to evict the tenant on the ground that he requires possession in good faith for his own occupation, M.M. Quasim v. Manohar Lal Sharma, ...
Landlordism
The state of being a landlord the characteristics of a landlord specifically in Great Britain the relation of landlords to tenants especially as regards leased agricultural lands...
Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927
Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927 (English) (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 36), provides; for the payment of compensation for improvements and goodwill to tenants of premises used for business purposes or the grant of a new lease in lieu thereof, and in other respects amends the law of landlord and tenant. Ss. 1 to 3 deal with the conditions under which a tenant may claim compensation for improvements. S. 4, with conditions under which a tenant on leaving may claim compensation for goodwill attached to the premises by reason where of they could be let at a higher rent. Sect. 5 provides for the granting of a new lease when the sum which could be awarded under s. 4 would not compensate the tenant for his loss of goodwill. Other provisions of the Act ameliorate the position of the tenant with regard to breaches of repairing covenants and also with regard to covenants against assignment, covenants against improvements without consent and covenants against alteration of user without consent. See also LAND...
The building is bona fide required by the landlord
The building is bona fide required by the landlord, the phrase 'the building is bona fide required by the landlord' for the immediate purpose of demolition and reconstruction occurring in s. 14(1)(b) of the Act refers to bona fide requirement of the landlord and the requirement in terms is not that the building should need immediate demolition and reconstruction, Metalware and Co. v. Bansilal Sarma and Co., AIR 1979 SC 1559 (1562): (1979) 3 SCC 398: (1979) 3 SCR 1107....
landlord
landlord : the owner of property (as houses, apartments, or land) that is leased or rented to another ...
landlord's lien
landlord's lien see lien ...
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923
Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (English) (13 & 14 Geo. 5, cc. 9 and 25). By a series of statutes commencing with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, statutory compensation has been provided for an outgoing agricultural tenant in respect of the improvements effected by him during his tenancy. The operation of this Act could be and frequently was excluded by agreement, but now the tenant cannot deprive himself by contract of the right to claim compensation which is conferred on him by the Act, although he may within limits substitute other benefits by agreement. The Act of 1923 (as amended by the Agricultural Holdings Amendment Act, 1923) repeals and consolidates all the earlier statutes dealing with the subject, and confers on outgoing tenants of 'holdings' the rights and benefits briefly outlined below. The term 'holding' means any parcel of land held by a tenant which is wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in whole or in part cultivated as a market garden, and which is not le...
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...
Attornment
Attornment [fr. tourner, Fr., to turn], the acknowledgement of a new lord on the alienation of land, and the assent or agreement of the tenant to attorn, as 'I become tenant to the purchaser.'-Co. Litt. 309. By s. 151 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, replacing 4 Anne, c. 16, ss. 9, 10, all grants and conveyances of lands, rents, reversions, etc., are good without the attornment of the tenants, but notice of the grants must be given to the tenants, before which they are not prejudiced by the payment of any rent to the grantor, or breach of the condition for non-payment, and by the same section of the (English) Act of 1925, replacing the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 11, attornments made by tenants to strangers claiming title to the estate of their landlord are null and void, and their landlord's possession is not affected thereby, except as provided by s. 151, ibid.The 'Attornment Clause' in a deed of mortgage is a clause whereby, for better sec...
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