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Forfeiture

in (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 13th Sched., Part. II. (6) Breaches of covenants or conditions contained in a lease or other instrument, when it is stipulated that they shall occasion forfeiture; a forfeiture under these circumstances may … or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry. The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts. (2) Conveyance contrary to

Deed

its validity, yet it may be rendered invalid from many causes, which may be thus classified:- (I.) Those making it void ab initio, when it can never take effect; as (a) Where it is wanting in any … Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.' The requisites of a

cause

(as a broker) that sets in motion a continuous series of events culminating esp. in the sale or leasing of real estate [entitled to a commission as the procuring cause of the sale even though the listing … of the then pending "R. T. Gerwatowski"] 4 in the civil law of Louisiana : the reason for making a contract compare frustration NOTE: Under the Louisiana Civil Code, if a contract's cause is illicit or immoral,

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Game

land rails, and coneys. At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of the game to the landlord, and before the Game Act, 1831, the right … Ground Game Act, 1880; and see GAME LICENCE), and all uncertificated persons selling it a yearly licence, and makes it unlawful to kill game on a Sunday or Christmas-day, or between the days and seasons when game

Distress

numbered 14), ss. 6, 7, gives a landlord power to distrain within six months after determination of the lease, but it must be made during the continuance of the landlord's title or interest, and also during the … may be made at any time within twelve years next after the time at which the right to make them shall have first accrued; but (by s. 42 of the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3

Rent

should be made before sunset, so as to allow sufficient light to count the money; and the person making the demand or tender must remain on the land till the sun has set. It may lawfully be … (1910) 2 KB 370. (3) Fee farm rent, one issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one-fourth of the value of the lands at the time of its reservation. (4) Rent-seck, a barren rent,

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 … QBD 42, as such repair as having regard to the age, character and locality of the house would make it reasonably fit for the occupation of a reasonably minded tenant of the class who would be likely

Assignment

v. Bhaskar Kashinath, AIR 1961 SC 573 (575). [Companies Act, 1956, s. 312] Assignment is a transfer or making over to another of the whole of any property, real or personal, in possesson or in action, or … straw, Fagg v. Dobie, (1838) 3 Y.& C. 96, and thus escape liability on the covenants in the lease, though he is usually made liable, on a covenant of indemnity in the deed of assignment, to his

contract

[purchased a guaranteed investment contract] called also GIC il·lu·so·ry contract [i-lü-sə-rē-, -zə-] : a contract in which at least one party makes an illusory promise implied contract 1 : a contract that a court infers to exist … investment contract] called also GIC il·lu·so·ry contract [i-lü-sə-rē-, -zə-] : a contract in which at least one party makes an illusory promise implied contract 1 : a contract that a court infers to exist from the words

Rectification

Fisher, (1886) 34 Ch D 367; in conveyances White v. White, (1872) LR 15 Eq 247; and in leases Cowan v. Truefitt, Ltd., (1899) 2 Ch 309. As to wills, see Vaughan v. Clerk, (1902) 87 LT … court's equitable correction of a contractual term that is misstated; the judicial alteration of a written contract to make it conform to true intention of parties when in its original form, it did not reflect this intention,

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