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Ejectment

Ejectment, the 'mixed' action at Common Law to recover the possession of land (which is real), and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of the land (which are

Habere facias possessionem

Habere facias possessionem (that you cause to have possession), a writ that issues for a successful plaintiff in ejectment, to put

Joint-tenancy

as for life, and the other as for years; and they must hold it by the same undivided possession, for each has an undivided moiety of the whole, and not the whole of an undivided moiety, though

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injury that may be sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carry-ing with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual occupation of the land or hereditament, and obliges him that

Tail

defeasible by the entry not only of the reversioner, or remainder-man, when he becomes entitled to enter into possession of the estate but also of the issue-in-tail upon the death of the tenant-in-tail. after 1925 a devise

Vest

Vest, (1) Either to place in possession; to make possessor of; or, to give an absolute interest in property when a named period or event

Forcible entry

upon any land or tenement with a strong hand, or in a violent manner, in order to take possession. There may be a forcible entry although no actual force is used, as, for example, when threats are

Larceny

constitute the offence there must be an unlawful taking, which implies that the goods must pass from the possession of a true owner (including one who has a qualified property only in the goods, as a bailee),

Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English)

Geo. 5, c. 37), and s. 35 enacts:- (1) A solicitor of a Superior Court in a British possession to which this section applies who has been in practice before such Court for not less than three

seisin

seisin or sei·zin [sēz-n] n [Anglo-French seisine, from Old French saisine act of taking possession, from saisir to seize, of Germanic origin] 1 : the possession of land or chattels: as a :

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