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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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