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Landlord and tenant

premises during the term free from disturbance by the landlord or by persons claiming against him or by paramount title, though it is said that in any letting short of a demise by deed the implied warranty does … his implied covenant for quiet possession so as to exclude his liability for acts of persons under a paramount title. Apart from agreement or condition terminating the lease or proviso for re-entry, a lessee or tenant has an

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Adverse possession

34 Ch D 763. Non-adverse possession is of two kinds. The title of the dispossessed may not be paramount, as in the case of a leasehold term when dispossession of the lessee is not necessarily inconsistent with

Joint-tenancy

which is held to be as good as a right by descent, the title of the survivor being paramount. It is a continuation of the estate by the survivorship of the tenants, the estate passing among the

Eviction

being evicted the recovery of lands tenements etc from anothers possession by due course of law dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title ejectment ouster

Owner (Estate Owner)

tenants for life, statutory owners (q.v.), trustees for sale, and personal representatives and mortgagees in exercise of their paramount powers. The legal title so disposed of is subject to all such equities, liabilities and charges and obligations

evict

vanquish, regain possession of] : to put (a tenant) out of property by force, by virtue of a paramount title, or esp. by legal process

Apportionment

were comprised in one lease, or upon partition, or upon eviction from part of the land by title paramount, or where part of the demised premises became lost to the tenant by irruption of the sea, also

Per and post

as the heirs or assigns of the grantee: to come in the post is to claim by a paramount and prior title, as the lord by escheat. See Co. Litt. 271 b, Harg., n. (1), II.

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