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Title

tenements. 1. The lowest and most imperfect degree of title consists in the mere naked possession, or actual occupation of the estate, without any apparent right or any shadow of pretence of right to hold and continue

Trade and commerce

Trade and commerce, means every business occupation carried on for subsistence or profit and involving the elements of bargain and sale, burter, exchange, or traffic,

Trade apprentice

Trade apprentice, means an apprentice who under-goes apprenticeship training in any such trade or occupation as may be prescribed. [Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961), s. 2 (q)]

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Unity of possession

is an unity of possession by which the lease is extinguished, because that he who had before the occupation only for his rent, is now become lord and owner of the land, Termes de la Ley. See

Stallage

right for a payment to be made, to the owner of the market, in respect of the exclusive occupation of a portion of the soil, for the purpose of selling goods in the market': Williams on Rights

Vacancy

SCC 745: (1995) AIR SCW 1371: (1995) 29 ATC 481 (SC). It occurs when a person in lawful occupation of premises vacates it. If a person other than tenant, occupying the premises in contravention of law, vacates

Vacant land

AIR 1985 SC 119: (1985) 1 SCC 234: (1985) 2 SCR 129. [Maharashtra Vacant Lands (Prohibition of Unauthorized Occupation and Summary Eviction Act (66 of 1975), s. 2(f)]

Vacation, eviction

the right which the respondent in the present case had. His right was confined to the use and occupation of the land for the purpose for which he held it from Government, i.e., for agricultural purposes and

Vest

of 1819)] The property must not only be owned by the Corporation, it must also be in the occupation of the Corporation itself. It is in this sense that the words 'vesting' has been used. 'Vesting' often

Waste lands

little or no herbage or wood. In legal use, a piece of such land not in any man's occupation but lying common. 3. A devastated region. In the sequence in which the expression 'waste lands' appears in

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