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Year to year, tenancy from. This estate arises either expressly, as when land is let from year to year, or by a general parol demise, without any deter-minate interest, but reserving the payment of an annual rent; or impliedly, as when property is occupied generally under a yearly rent, payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly; or when such tenant holds over, after the expiration of his term, without having entered into any new contract, and pays rent (before which he is a tenant on sufferance), and in such cases the tenant holds over on such terms of the old tenancy lease as are applicable to a tenancy from year to year and to the particular tenancy.The qualities which distinguish a tenancy from year to year from proper terms for years, and from estates at will, are (1) that it exists by construction of law alone instead of an estate at will in every instance where a possession is taken with the consent of the legal owner and where an annual rent has been paid, but without there havi...
Term of years absolute
Term of years absolute, defined for the purposes of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205 (1) (xxvii.), as a term of years in possession or reversion whether or not at a rent with or without impeachment for waste, subject or not to another legal estate and either certain or liable to deter-mination by notice, re-entry, operation of law, or by a provision for cesser of redemption or in any other event (other than the dropping of a life or the determination of a determinable life interest, but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest, nor if created after 1925 a term of years which is not expressed to take effect in possession within twenty-one years where required by the Act to take effect within that period (i.e., leases at a rent or in considation of a fine and not being leases of a reversion on a term, see s. 149 of the Act); and in that definition, term of years includes terms for less than years ...
year-and-a-day rule
year-and-a-day rule : a common-law rule that relieves a defendant of responsibility for homicide if the victim lives for more than one year and one day after being injured NOTE: The year-and-a-day rule, which dates from at least 1278, is frequently criticized as anachronistic since modern medicine makes pinpointing cause of death easier than it was formerly. However, the rule still exists or is reflected in the law of some jurisdictions. ...
Completed year of service
Completed year of service, means continuous service for one year. [Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (39 of 1972), s. 2]Mean continuous service for one year, Beed District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra, 2006 (8) SCC 514....
one year
completing its life cycle within a year...
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...
Intoxicating liquor
Intoxicating liquor, the word 'intoxicating liquor' is not confined to potable liquor alone but would include all liquor which contain alcohol. Liquor should not only cover alcoholic liquor which is generally used for beverage purposes wand produce intoxication but would also include liquids containing alcohol, State of U.P. v. Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd., AIR 1980 SC 614: (1980) 2 SCR 531: (1980) 2 SCC 441. [Constitution of India, List II, 7th Sch., Entry 8]See also Synthetics and Chemicals Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1990) 1 SCC 109.Intoxicating liquors. The sale of intoxicating liquors by retail in England and Wales is now mainly regulated by the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24), which repealed (see Sched. VII.) the whole or part of thirteen earlier Acts. The effect of this statute is shortly as follows:-1. Grant of Licence.--Defining 'intoxicating liquor' as meaning 'spirits, wine, beer, porter, cider, perry, and sweets, and any fermented, di...
Minor
Minor, a person under twenty-one years of age. There is no legal distinction between a minor in this sense and an infant. See INFANT. Strictly speaking, in Scotland a minor is a person between the ages of pupilarity and majority--in males from fourteen to twenty-one years and females from twelve to twenty-one years. minors must act with a curator if they have one, whereas pupils (under the age of pupilarity) act through their tutor. These are summary disabilities imposed by Common Law and Statute on minors.It means a person of either sex who is under eighteen years of age. [Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, s. 2 (d)]It means a person who has completed the age of sixteen years but has not completed the age of eighteen years. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, s. 2 (cb)]It means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), s. 2 (1) (ff)]It means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years. [Citizenship Act, 19...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
Tithe Rent-Charge
Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...
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