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Lease and licence

Lease and licence, if an interest in immovable property, entitling the transferor to enjoyment, is created, it is a lease; if permission to use land without right to exclusive possession is alone granted, a license is the legal result, Qudrat Ullah v. Municipal Board, Bareilly, AIR 1974 SC 396 (398): (1974) 1 SCC 202. (Transfer of Property Act, s. 105; Easements Act, s. 52)The difference between a 'lease' and 'licence' is to be determined by finding out the real intention of the parties as decipherable from a complete reading of the document, if any, executed between the parties and the surrounding circumstances. Only a right to use the property in a particular way or under certain terms given to the occupant while the owner retains the control or possession over the premises results in a licence being created; for the owner retains legal possession while all that the licensee gets is a permission to use the premises for a particular purpose or in a particular manner and but for the pe...

Distribution licensee

Distribution licensee, 'distribution licensee' means a licensee authorised to operate and maintain a distribution system for supplying electricity to the consumers in his area of supply. [Electricity Act, (36 of 2003), s. 2(17)]...

Contractual licence

Contractual licence, is a licence supported by consideration but not coupled with a grant, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9, para 530, p. 365....

Off licence

Off licence. A justices' licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor not to be consumed on the (English) Premises [Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), s. 110]...

Conductor's licence

Conductor's licence, means the licence issued by a competent authority under Chapter III authorising the person specified therein to act as a conductor. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (6)]...

Six day licence

Six day licence, a liquor licence containing a condition that the premises in respect of which it is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday-granted under Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, s. 58....

Prospecting licence

Prospecting licence, means a licence granted for the purpose of undertaking prospecting operations. [Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), s. 3 (h)]...

Transmission licensee

Transmission licensee, means a licensee authorised to establish or operate transmission lines. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(73)]...

naked licensee

naked licensee : bare licensee ...

licensee

licensee : one to whom a license is given [a patent ] ;specif : one (as a firefighter in the course of his or her duty) who is on the property of another by authority of law or by the consent or invitation of the possessor see also bare licensee, social guest compare invitee, trespasser ...

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