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Notice to quit
holds under a void demise, no notice is necessary; but where a lease granted by a tenant for life under a limited power of leasing, which exceeded his power, was void, and not capable of being confirmed … Notice to quit. Where there is a tenancy from year to year subsisting, it can only be put an end to by notice to quit, which
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
after possibility, etc., of a remainder as well as of a possession. And thus, if a lease for life be made, remainder to husband and wife in special tail, and the husband die without issue, now is … from a particular wife, if she die without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct. Only a donee in tail-special can become such a tenant, for if the
Curtesy of England
law of England arises by act of law, and is that interest which a husband has for his life in his wife's fee-simple or fee-tail estates, generalor special, aftr her death. Tenancy by the curtesy has been
Apportionment
11 Geo. 2, c. 19, s. 25, which apportioned rent between the representatives of a deceased tenant for life, and the person succeeding in remainder, and by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 22, passed to obviate … and remaindermen, but between receiver and payer, as between a landlord and a tenant, so that if a tenancy be determined in the middle of a quarter, the landlord gets rent up to the day of determination,
Autre vie, Estate pur
Autre vie, Estate pur, a tenancy of land for the life of another who is called the cestui-que vie. The lowest estate of freehold which the law allowed before
Estate
to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest, e.g., estate in fee simple, for life, for years, etc., in either legal or equitable estates. In practice its most important division is into real … grant, without expressing any term at all. (b) Legal, or created by operation of law; they are (a) tenancy in tail after possibility of issue extinct, (b) tenancy by the courtesy of England, (c) tenancy in dower.
Emblements
such to the executor or administrator of the occu-pier, whether he were the owner in fee, or for life, or for years, if he die before he has actually cut, reaped, or gathered the same; and this, … the devisee of the land as to the executor. So, a tenant at will, the duration of whose tenancy is uncertain, is, if the lessor suddenly determine the tenancy, entitled to emblements. And, at Common Law, fructus
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