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Primary conveyances

conveyances, such as release, surrender, etc., and see DERIVATIVE DEED, are:- (1) Feoffments. (2) Grants. (3) Gifts. (4) Leases. (5) Exchanges. (6) Partitions. Consult 1 Steph. Com.

Conveyance

another, defined for the purposes of the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205, as including 'mortgage charge, lease, assent, vesting declaration, vesting instrument, disclaimer, release and every other assurance of property or of any interest therein

Release

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Apportionment

rent was apportionable upon severance by act of law, e.g., upon the devolution on intestacy of freeholds, and leaseholds which were comprised in one lease, or upon partition, or upon eviction from part of the land by … became lost to the tenant by irruption of the sea, also by act of parties, e.g., upon surrender, release, grant or devise of part of demised land. The right to apportionment is a question of law, the

Acquintance

or done; as where a man is bound to pay money on a bond, rent reserved upon a lease, etc., and the party to whom it is due, on receipt thereof, gives a writing under his hand … Acquintance, means a document by which one is discharged from a debt or other obligation, a receipt or release indications payment in full, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24. Acquittance is a discharge in writing of

Joint-tenancy

charges and incumbrances which do not amount to at least a partial alienation of the share by a lease for life; and a devise by a joint-tenant, during the existence of the joint-tenancy, is void. The maxim … of assurance from one joint-tenant to another was, and as to equitable interests still is, a deed of release, and the fee passed in such a case without the word 'heirs.' No right of dower or courtesy

Will, Estate at

power of having any will. If a lessee for years accept an estate at will in the property lease, his term of years would in law be surrendered. An estate at will is created either by the … grantee cannot transfer the estate to another, although after he has entered into possession he may accept a release of the inheritance from the grantor, for there exists a privity between them. It must end at the

Articles

deed, whereby it is stipulated that one of the parties shall convey to the other certain lands, or release his right to them, or execute some other disposition of them. Articles are therefore considered as a memorandum … Articles are usually entered into for the purchase and sale of lands, for the taking and granting of leases, for making settlements on marriage, and for forming partnerships. And see ASSOCIATION. And see IMPEACHMENT.

Waiver

the same is lost; a common instance of this is where a landlord waives a forfeiture of a lease by receiving rent, or distraining for rent, which has accrued due after the breach of covenant causing the … and Broom's Leg. Max. under the titles Consensus tollit errorem, Quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introducto. See RELEASE. Waiver is distinct from estoppel in that in waiver the essential element is actual intent to abandon or

bailment

express or implied, which require agreement, and the agreement may also be express or implied. Contracts for the lease of a car, for sale of goods on consignment, and for the transport of goods are examples of … bailment [Anglo-French bayllment, from bailler to hand over see bail ] : the transfer of possession but not ownership of personal property (as goods) for a limited time

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