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Rent
because it has some corporeal service incident to it, as at the lest, fealty. (2) Rent-charge, where the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion in the land. It is usually created by deed
Reddition
the demandant, and not to the person surrendering (ibid.). An acknowledgment in court that one is not the owner of certain property being demanded; and that in fact belongs to demandant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Means
Quiet enjoyment
safely enter into the qualified covenant for quiet enjoyment, for an ejectment of the lessee by the real owner would not be an ejectment by a person claiming by the lessor, but against him, See Woodfall, L.
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Maritime Courts
to the use or hire of a ship or carriage of goods in a ship, provided that the owner or part owner of the ship is domiciled in England or Wales. The appeal from the Admiralty branch
Mischievous animals
Mischievous animals. As to the liability of their owners the law recognizes two classes of animals (q.v.): (1) Animals naturally dangerous to man, such as a lion,
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
there is a discontinuance, i.e., interim during which no one enters or is paid the rent, the rightful owner regains his cause of action until a statutory limitation is completed against him from the date of the
taking
by government action and esp. by the exercise of eminent domain and for which just compensation to the owner must be given according to the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution see also inverse condemnation, physical taking,
Abandonment
the underwriters, Rankin v. Potter, (1873) LR 6 HL 83. The abandonment of a sunken ship frees the owner from responsibility: See The Snark, 1900, P. 105, where there was no abandonment of a barge sunk in
Sequester
To separate from the owner for a time to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person
viatical settlement
viatical settlement [probably from Latin viaticum provision for a journey] : an agreement by which the owner of a life insurance policy covering a person (as the owner) with a catastrophic or life-threatening illness receives
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