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Expropriation

Expropriation, the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; also, dispossessing an owner of his property, wholly or partially. See Housing

Remise

Remise, to surrender or return; to release.

Cessionary

Having surrendered the effects as a cessionary bankrupt

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Merger

the reversion on a lease became merged, the next estate was to be deemed the reversion, if the surrender or merger took place after the 1st October, 1845. See also SEVERANCE and APPORTIONMENT. In order to effect

Resignation

a term of legal art having legal connotations which describe certain legal results. It is characteristically, the voluntary surrender of a position by the person on resigning, made freely and not under duress and the word is

Customary freeholds

from this proposition in his workon Copyholds, vol. ii. pp. 572 et seq.) They are usually transferred by surrender into the hands of the lord and admittance of the new tenant. Their customs, incidents, and services are

Real Property Act, 1845

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

Copyhold

& 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), are applicable to the species of tenure. (6) Copyholds are alienated by surrender, according to general custom, followed by admittance at the hands of the lord or his steward, and they

Relinquishment and assignment of tenancy

Relinquishment and assignment of tenancy, the distinction between an assignment on the one hand and relinquishment or surrender on the other is too plain to be ignored. In the case of an assignment, the assignor continues

Waging war

that the persons charged have continued to obtain possession of an armoury and have, when called upon to surrender it, used the rifles and ammuni-tion so obtained against the King's troops, Mir Hasan Khan v. State, AIR

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