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legal owner

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Co-owner

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easements

easements the legal rights that give someone other than the owner access to use property for a specific purpose. Easements may

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Equitable estates and interests

charge, and whenever a trust arises, either express, constructive, implied or by operation of law. In theory the legal owner alone was entitled, both in law and equity, to the property, and he alone was responsible for the … and incidents attaching to the property, the beneficial owner merely having a personal right inequity to force the legal owner to carry out his obligation or trust, but the rights and obligations of beneficial ownership became recognized and

Settled land

representative selling in course of administration or to persons of full age absolutely entitled to deal with the legal estate free from the settlement. The direction of investment lies with the tenant for life and the investments … most interested in the welfare of the estate, and empowered him to do almost anything that a judicious owner would wish to do, subject to one great exception--he could not sell the estate and himself receive the

owner

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Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

of these changes being that the entirity of the legal estate should be in the hands of an owner or joint owners of full age who can deal with the whole estate without the concurrence of holders … the object of simplifying the transfer and conveyance of land. An important change was the abolition of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years

Possession

law books divide its concept into two broad categories (i) physical possession or possession in fact; and (ii) legal possession which need not coincide with possession in fact. The control over the property has always been regarded … Tiwari, 1969 All WR (HC) 230. Possession, in common parlance denoted to occupy, to have or hold as owner, to obtain, to maintain, Krishna Prasad Jaiswal v. Kanti Gupta, (1996) 1 BLJ 45. Possession, indicates possession with

Estate owner

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Uses

jurisdiction over the property, found a way to make an appeal to the conscience of the apparent or legal owner, backed by its irresistible sanctions. The person enjoying the beneficial right was called the cestui que use, or

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