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Real Property Act, 1845
Real Property Act, 1845 (English) (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), repealed and substantially re-enacted and extended by ss. 4, 51, 52, 56, 59, 138 and 168 of the Law of Property Act, 1925. The main provisions of the Act of 1845 affect all titles after 1845; prior to 1926, they included:Partitions or exchanges of freehold land, leases required by law to be in writing, i.e., leases for three years or more (see FRAUD), and all assignments and surrenders of leases must be by deed.A contingent executory and future interest in land and a possibility coupled with an interest in land, and a right of entry whether immediate, future, vested, or contingent, may be disposed of by deed.When the reversion on a lease is gone by surrender or merger, the next estate is to be deemed the reversion--(so that if, e.g., A. in 1900 let land to B. for fourteen years and B. in 1903 surrender, after having sub-let to C. till the end of 1905, C. will become tenant to A. till the end of 1905, notwithstanding B.'s surrender...
Personal property
Personal property, money, goods, cattle, chattels, stocks, shares, securities, debts, etc., and also leases for years, however long. Personal property is either in possession, or in action, where a man has not the actual occupation of the thing, but only a right to it arising upon some contract, and recoverable by an action at law.Any person may assign personal property, including chattels real, directly to himself and another person or other persons or corporation, by the like means as he might assign the same to another, Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 21.This was extended by the (English) Emergency Act, 1881, to conveyances of freehold land or choses in action by a husband to a wife or e contra. Now, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 72, a person may convey real or personal property to himself alone.In the case of real property there can be no such thing as an absolute ownership in the subject-matter, i.e., land; the utmost that any one, even an owner in fee sim...
Property
Property, an actionable claim against the tenants is undoubtedly a species of property which is assignable, State of Bihar v. Kameshwar Singh, AIR 1952 SC 252.Comprises every form of tangible property, even intangible, including debts and chooses in action such as unpaid accumulation of wages, pension, cash grants, and constitutionally protected privy purse, See M.M. Pathak v. Union of India, AIR 1978 SC 802.Decree is to be treated as property, Associated Hotels of India v. Jodha Mal Kuthiala, AIR 1950 Punj 201.Every movable property is included in the ordinary connotation of the word 'property', Chunni Lal v. State, AIR 1968 Raj 70.In commercial law this may carry its ordinary meaning of the subject-matter of ownership. But elsewhere, as in the sale of goods it may be used as a synonym for ownership and lesser rights in goods, Dictionary of Commercial Law by A.H. Hudson, (1983, Edn.).In Entry 42, List III (Constitution of India) includes the power to legislate for acquisition of an un...
property
property pl: -ties [Anglo-French propreté proprieté, from Latin proprietat- proprietas, from proprius own, particular] 1 : something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, interest, possession abandoned property : property to which the owner has relinquished all rights NOTE: When property is abandoned, the owner gives up the reasonable expectation of privacy concerning it. The finder of abandoned property is entitled to keep it, and a police officer may take possession of abandoned property as evidence without violating the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. after-acquired property 1 : property (as proceeds) that a debtor acquires after the commencement of a bankruptcy case and that is usually considered part of the bankruptcy estate 2 : property acquired after the perfection of a lien or security interest ;esp : such property acquired after the creation of a lien or security interest that is subject to the lien or...
Real action
Real action, one brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, and hereditaments.Among the civilians, real actions, otherwise called vindications, are those in which a man demanded something that was his own. They were founded on dominion, or jus in re.The real actions of the Roman Law were not, like the real actions of the Common Law, confined to real estate, but they included personal as well as real property. But the same distinction as to classes of remedies and actions pervades the Common and Civil Law. Thus we have, in the Common Law, the distinct classes of real actions, personal actions, and mixed actions--the first, embracing those which concern real estate where the proceeding is purely in rem; the next, embracing all suits in personam for contracts and torts; and the last embracing those mixed suits where the person is liable by reason of and in connection with property, Story's Confl. Laws, 781.By the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27...
real
real [Anglo-French, concerning land, property, or things (rather than persons), from Middle French, from Medieval Latin and Late Latin; Medieval Latin realis relating to things (in law), from Late Latin, actual, from Latin res thing, fact] 1 a : of or relating to real property [a action] see also real property at property b in the civil law of Louisiana : attached to a thing rather than a person [a obligation is transferred along with the thing to which it is attached] see also real right compare personal 2 : actual 3 : adjusted for inflation esp. to reflect actual purchasing power [ income] ...
Real Estate
Real Estate. Before 1926, land (with all houses, etc., built thereon) including all estates and interests in lands which are held for life (not for years, however many) or for some greater estate, and whether such lands be of freehold or copyhold tenure. This is the usual meaning of real estate, but for the purposes of devolution upon deaths after 1925 the definition of real estate by s. 3 of the Administration of Estates Act, 1925, is 'real estate includes chattels real and land in possession, remainder or reversion and every interest in or over land to which the deceased was entitled at his death and (ii.) real estate held on trust (including settled land) or by way of mortgage or security, but not money to arise under a trust for sale of land nor money secured or charged on land'; Consult Carson's Real Property Statutes; Williams on Real Property; Burton's Compendium....
real right
real right in the civil law of Louisiana : a right that is attached to a thing rather than a person [the right of ownership…may be burdened with a real right in favor of another person as allowed by law "Louisiana Civil Code"] NOTE: A real right is not restricted to real property since it can also be attached to movable property. Real rights include ownership, use, pledge, usufruct, mortgage, and predial servitude. ...
real estate
real estate : real property at property ...
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