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Tack

Tack, a lease or contract of location; also an addition, supplement; also cattle taken in by a tenant on agistment. To

Leaser

One who leases or gleans

release

release re·leased re·leas·ing 1 a : to relieve or free from obligation, liability, or responsibility [the debtor is released from all dischargeable debts] b : to give up (a claim, title, or right) to the benefit...

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Renewal

that: '..... a distinction between 'extension' and 'renewal' is chiefly that in the case of renewal, a new lease is required while in the case of extension the same lease continues in force during additional period by

Lives

Lives, Estate for. A lease to A. during the life of another or the lives of others was a tenure of very long

Landlord and tenant

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

Merger

Property Act, 1925, s. 139), the doctrine worked great hardship in cases where the immediate reversion on a lease was a leasehold term; leaseholds, however long their term, being considered an inferior or less estate than a

Usual Covenants

that in respect of which a question arises. The phrase occurs most frequently in connection with agreements for leases stipulating that the lease when granted shall contain 'all usual covenants.' What these are is a question of

Notice to quit

twelve months from the end of the then current year of the tenancy. Where the term of a lease is to end on a precise day, there is no occasion for a notice to quit previously to

Constructive trust

the hands of such a purchaser. The doctrine of constructive trusts also arises upon the renewal of a lease by a trustee, or person having a limited interest, in his own name, even in the absence of

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