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Occupation and possession

'occupation' in this context may take various forms and even keeping the household effects and locking up that portion by the owner instead of letting out to any body are acts of occupation. Even if a landlord

Occupier

for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is

Royalty

which he grants, Inderjeet Singh Sial v. Karam Chand Thapar, (1995) 6 SCC 166. Means a compensation or portion of the proceeds paid to the owner of a right, as a patent or oil or mineral right,

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Priapean

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot and an amphimacer

Joint-tenancy

1881, s. 61. (2) When two persons purchase an estate, and advance the purchase-money between them in unequal portions, equity treats them as tenants in common, notwithstanding the transfer be made to them generally, but the inequality

Fractionally

By fractions or separate portions as to distill a liquid fractionally that is so as to separate different portions

Partition, Deed of

tenants in common, coparceners, or joint heirs in gavelkind, and they were desirous of dividing it into distinct portions, to be exclusively enjoyed by each, and were not under legal disability, they could accomplish their object by

divided

divided 1 a : separated into parts, classes, or portions [ coverage] [ custody] b in the civil law of Louisiana : separately owned, possessed, or held :

split

split split split·ting : to divide into parts or portions: as a : to divide into factions, parties, or groups b : to mark (a ballot) or cast

Strict settlement

successive limitations in tail to the exclusion of the younger children, who are pro-vided for by means of portions charged on the property. The limitations vary according to the circumstances of each particular case, but the following

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