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Occupation debt, 'occupation debt' is defined as a debt payable by virtue of an obligation incurred during the occupation period and accruing due at any time. The term 'debt' is commonly used to describe liabilities which have an origin in contract, Muthupalaniapa Chettir v. Alagamai Achi, AIR 1961 Mad 438 (442). [Malayan Ordinance (42 of 1948)]...
Use and occupation, Action for
Use and occupation, Action for, an action for dam-ages upon the case for breach of an implied agreement to pay for the use of a landlord's property under the Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 14, whereby it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the landlord, where the agreement is not by deed, to recover a reasonable satisfaction for the lands, tenements, or hereditaments held or occupied by the defendant in an action on the case, for the use or occupation of what was so held or enjoyed; and if in evidence on the trial of such action any parole demise, or any agreement (not being by deed) whereon a certain rent was reserved, shall appear, the plaintiff in such action shall not therefore be non-suited, but may make use thereof as an evidence of the quantum of the damages to be recovered. Apparently, the action is not for damages ex delictu, because the action is not maintainable against a trespasser or wrong-doer, an action for debt on the demise but not upon covenant ...
Nihil or nil habuit in tenementis
Nihil or nil habuit in tenementis (he [the landlord] had no interest in the tenements [demised]), a plea denying the lessor's title pleaded in an action of debt only, brought by a lessor against a lessee for years, or at will, without deed or occupation by the lessee, for if the lessee had become tenant he would have been estopped from denying his landlord's title....
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a.Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing s. 91 of the Court of Probate Act, 1857:-There shall, under the control and direction of the High Court, be provided safe and convenient depositories for the custody of the wills of living persons, and any person may deposit his will therein.And see (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 26), s. 11, as to deposit of wills under control of the High Court.Law before 1838.-The right of testamentary aliena-tion of lands is a matter depending on Act of Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a will could not be made of land, and before the Statute of Frauds a will (see NUNCUPATIVE WILL) could be made by word of mouth...
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 1926. After 1925 the estate has become an equitable interest, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1. If limited to the grantee and his heirs, it passed to the grantee's heirs or special occupants; if granted to executors or administrators, they took, as special occupants, if in that case or if there was no special occupant the estate went to the executors or administrators of the grantee. (Wills Act, 1837 (1 Vict. c. 26), s. 6, superseding the Statute of Frauds, s. 3, and 14 Geo. 2, c. 20, s. 9). By s. 3 of the (English) Wills Act, 1837, the estate was declared to be disposable of by will. The estate could be assigned inter vivos. It could not be the subject of entail, see Carson's Real Property Statutes; Notes to s. 1 of the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74). It was not subject to dower or curtesy....
Married women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...
Landlord and tenant
Landlord and tenant. A tenancy arises when the owner of an estate inland, called the lessor or landlord, agrees expressly or by implication to allow another person, called the lessee or tenant, to enjoy the exclusive possession and use of the land for a period less than the landlord's estate in it, generally upon payment of rent. The landlord's estate is called the reversion, and at common law, a power of distress for rent is incident to the reversion.Leases or tenancies may be (1) for any agreed period such as for years or less, e.g., for a year, half-year, quarter or week; (2) from year to year; (3) at will; (4) on sufferance; or (5) they may arise upon estoppel; or (6) exist by force of a statute (see LEASE; INCREASE OF RENT). In a narrower sense the words 'tenancy' and 'landlord and tenant' are generally restricted to lease of a house or land for occupational purposes. If nothing appears to the contrary, either expressly or by implication, in the lease or agreement, the landlord is...
Personal property
Personal property, money, goods, cattle, chattels, stocks, shares, securities, debts, etc., and also leases for years, however long. Personal property is either in possession, or in action, where a man has not the actual occupation of the thing, but only a right to it arising upon some contract, and recoverable by an action at law.Any person may assign personal property, including chattels real, directly to himself and another person or other persons or corporation, by the like means as he might assign the same to another, Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 21.This was extended by the (English) Emergency Act, 1881, to conveyances of freehold land or choses in action by a husband to a wife or e contra. Now, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 72, a person may convey real or personal property to himself alone.In the case of real property there can be no such thing as an absolute ownership in the subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee sim...
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