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Entry into possession
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Limitation of actions and prosecutions
the other; 3rdly, when the claimant or his successor has never, in contemplation of law, been out of possession; and 4thly, when the occupier has acknowledged the plaintiff's title. A person dispossessing persons entitled to possession of settled … acquires no right of which the rightful owner was not dispossessed by the trespasser, for instance; a trespasser occupying land held under a lease acquires no rights against the reversioner, whatever the length of the term may
Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890
the country, or the Agricultural Holdings Act, as would be due to him but for the mortgagee taking possession; and further gives such occupier a right to six months' notice, before being deprived of possession by the mortgagee … without compensation from the mortgagee. The Tenants' Compensation Act, to remedy this hardship, provided that where a person occupies land under a contract of tenancy (whenever made) with the mortgagor, which is not binding on the mortgagee,
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Held
owner or holder or tenant of; keep possession of; occupy. Thus, 'held' connotes both ownership as well as possession. And in the context of the definition it is not possible to interpret the term 'held' only in the
Occupation
The act or process of occupying or taking possession actual possession and control the state of being occupied a holding or keeping tenure use as the occupation of lands by … The act or process of occupying or taking possession actual possession and control the state of being occupied a holding or keeping tenure use
lodger
;specif : a person who by agreement with the owner of a house acquires no property, interest, or possession therein but only the right to occupy a designated room or area that remains in the owner's legal
Rent
as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty … the legal sense of recompense paid by the tenant to the landlord for the exclusive possession of premises occupied by him. It may also be used in the general sense, without importing the legal significance aforesaid, of
Prescription
It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio. Title by prescription arises from a long-continued and uninterrupted possession of property, and is thus defined by Sir Edward Coke (Co. Litt. 113 b), Pr'scriptio est titulus ex … negative, which relates to realty or corporeal hereditaments, whereby an uninterrupted possession for a given time gives the occupier a valid and unassilable title, by depriving all claimants of every stale right and deferred litigation, now mainly
Vacate
Vacate, it implies a unilateral act and all that is necessary is that the person in possession should give up his possession, AIR 1969 Bom 348 (350). [Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control … 1992 SC 1540 (1541): (1992) SCC 70. 1. To notify or cancel; make void; invalidate 2. To surrender occupying or possession, to move out or leave, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
holder
and esp. under a lease 2 a : a person who under the Uniform Commercial Code is in possession of a negotiable instrument that names and is made payable to the possessor or that is payable to … : owner [the of a patent] often used in combination [a stockholder] b : one that holds or occupies the property of another by agreement and esp. under a lease 2 a : a person who under
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