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the plaint or demand which was not in the tenure of the defendant; for if the defendant pleaded non-tenure, joint-tenancy, or the like, in abatement of the writ as to part of the lands, and plaintiff might

Extinguishment

any longer, his copyhold was extinguished. When the lord did an act inconsistent with the nature of the tenure, e.g., conveyed to the tenant the freehold, or released to him his seignorial rights, an enfranchisement was effected. … right of common is preserved and apportioned, 1 Bac. Ab. 628. (2) Extinguishment of Easement. By statute, release, non-user, unity of seisin, or alteration of the dominant tenement; the term is sometimes used to denote the interruption

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Uses

was no process at Common Law but against legal estates. (9) A use, not being an object of tenure, was therefore exempt from the oppressive burdens of the feudal system. It was not forfeitable for treason or … execution of the use. (6) The use may be raised by a conveyance operating either by transmutation or non-transmutation of possession (see infra). Non-operation of the Statute: The Statute of Uses did not operate to vest the

Deed

to be created. (g) Tenendum. This is usually joined with the habendum, but it is unnecessary, since the tenure is never expressed, except upon a sub-grant or lease reserving rent. In annuity deeds and money assignments, the … 'testing clause' is the attestation; see infra. (f) Habendum, limiting and defining the interest. This part is a non-essential formality, expressing the extent of the grantee's interest in the thing granted. The grantee should be named, and

Estate

which must be performed before an estate can vest or be enlarged; (b) subsequent, by the failure or non-performance of which an estate already vested is defeated; such are (i.) estates held in vadio, gage, or pledge, … the same meaning as that expression or its local equivalent has in the existing law relating to land tenures in force in that area and shall also include-- (i) any jagir, inam or muafi or other similar

Highways

except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right … attaches (by prescription) to particular townships, or other divisions of parishes, and occasionally to private persons bound ratione tenur', or in right of their estates, to repair some particular highway. Highways in general are regulated by the

Intoxicating liquor

on premises under 15l. yearly value to 100l. on premises of 900l. yearly value or more. If the tenure of the holder of the licence is leasehold, he may deduct [s. 21(3)] from his rent a percentage … unsuitability, as can the renewal of other existing on-licences. In the case of other on-licences the grounds of non-renewal must rest mainly on misconduct, but it is further provided that in every case of the refusal of

Parish Council

the parish council in Scotland to various other local bodies, and the parish council as such is now non-existent .

Land

(English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of … include all lands, whether agricultural or not, and it would be plainly unreasonable to assume that it includes non-agricultural lands but does not include agricultural lands, Raja Jagannath Baksh Singh v. State of U.P., AIR 1962 SC

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