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Supplies
stop at maintenance of 'supplies' only. It extends further to 'services', also. One of the primary necessaries of life is food, one of the elementary obligations of a welfare State is to ensure food to its citizens.
Tenant
itself denotes in law 'one who holds lands by any kind of title whether for years or for life or in fee' and does not necessarily mean a lessee unless it is used in opposition to landlord, … embraces in itself, the heirs of the deceased called 'statutory tenants' as even after the determination of the tenancy continued to have an estate on the tenanted premises, which are heritable, Kasturi Lal v. Brimlal, 1986 Sim
Personal property
the law, however, was not recognised inequity, and accordingly under a gift of personal property to A. for life and after his decease to B., the Court of Chancery, to carry out the obvious intention, would hold … in the first tenant in tail at his birth. See Re Lord Chesham, (1909) 2 Ch 310. Joint tenancy and tenancy in common may subsist in the case of personal property, though now tenancy in common of
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Allowance
Allowances.--Deductions or payments allowed by law or in equity to persons such as trustees, personal representatives, tenants for life, mortgagees in possession, receivers, and others liable to account, also the admission of claims or items in an … payments made, under custom of the country or agreement, by landlord to tenant on the determination of agricultural tenancy, to compensate the tenant for outlay on seed, labour, or crops, of which he cannot reap the benefit
Copyhold
as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom … its holding or tenure, the tenant is merely a tenant-at-will; but it is to be remarked that his tenancy at will must be according to custom, which always regulates the copyholder's interest, upon which interest the lord
Undivided shares in land
the statutory trusts (q.v.) A trust for sale does not arise in the case of joint tenants for life who are constituted together as 'tenant for life' by s. 19 (2) of the Settled Land Act, 1925. … It should be noticed that shares only are affected by these provisions. The legal estate in the joint tenancy in the entirety of the trustees for sale persists ex necessitate rei, and this is given effect to
Transfer
Mavji v. Soni Jagjivvan Kanji, 1979 (20) Guj LR 256. Transfer, connotes, normally, between two living persons during life; will take effect after demise of the testator and transfer in that perspective becomes incongruous, State of West … of surrender, his application deserves to be allowed, Brisa Munda v. Chando Kumari, AIR 1996 SC 704. [Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act (6 of 1908), s. 46(4) (a)] Transfer, is comprehensive and is regarded generally as comprehending within its
Lease
leapum, or leasum, Sax., to enter lawfully], sometimes also called demise (demissio), is a grant of property for life, or years, or from year to year or at will, by one who has greater interest in the … s. 54). Possession by the tenant and receipt of rent by the landlord are good evidence of a tenancy. By the (English) Judicature Act,1925, s. 56, causes for the specific performance of contracts for leases are assigned
Rent
term of years absolute (see LEASE) they are legal estates. All other rent-charges and rents, such as for life or remainder, etc., have become equitable estates [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1 (8)], but see s. 149, … v. New Delhi Municipality, AIR 1962 SC 554. Rent, includes all that is payable as consideration for the tenancy. The essential services having been ensured, the tenant is liable to pay it by way of service charge.
Consummation
lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his own life, provided he has had issue by her, capable of inheriting. His estate becomes initiate upon birth of a … Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in
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