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Personal property
in the first tenant in tail at his birth. See Re Lord Chesham, (1909) 2 Ch 310. Joint tenancy and tenancy in common may subsist in the case of personal property, though now tenancy in common of … life or otherwise as may be agreed. But even inequity personalty which has settled either by deed or will to follow the trusts of an equitable entailed estate inland vested absolutely in the first tenant in tail
property
or used by more than one party ;specif : property owned or leased by tenants in common compare tenancy in common at tenancy com·mu·ni·ty property : property held jointly by husband and wife ;specif : property esp. … for the security interest 3 : property transferred to the estate of a decedent after execution of the will common property : property owned or used by more than one party ;specif : property owned or leased
Lease
s. 54). Possession by the tenant and receipt of rent by the landlord are good evidence of a tenancy. By the (English) Judicature Act,1925, s. 56, causes for the specific performance of contracts for leases are assigned … called demise (demissio), is a grant of property for life, or years, or from year to year or at will, by one who has greater interest in the property. The person granting is called the lessor, who is
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Chattels or catals
freehold; it is the former, certainty, that characterizes a chattel real or chattel interest in realty. Hence, every tenancy of a definite duration is a term, i.e., a period accurately ascertained, during which the estate or interest … five species of legal or equitable estates maybe enumerated: (a) for years; (b) from year to year; (c) at will; (d) by elegit; and (e) on sufferance. See also HEIRLOOMS.
Joint-tenancy
Matched in: Term Joint-tenancy
Tenancy in Common
Matched in: Term Tenancy in Common
Forfeiture
take advantage of it, by express declaration, or by any act inconsistent with it, or admitting a continuing tenancy, as by receiving rent accrued due since the breach, or distraining for the same, or by subsequently encouraging … prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord. The Crown may, however (see MORTMAIN), grant a licence which will avoid this forfeiture. By the (English) Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 42),
Disclaimer
himself or a third person, and this is a distinct ground of forfeiture of the lease or other tenancy, whether of land or tithe. See Vivian v. Moat, (1878) 16 Ch D 730, in which Fry, J., … is more properly called, 'renounce,' the executorship, and the executor of an executor may, before probate of the will of his own testator, disclaim to be the executor of the first testator; but he cannot so disclaim
Executor
with some exceptions, e.g., an entailed interest not disposed of by the will, and property held in joint tenancy, and he can sell or mortgage that property for purposes of administration, and no purchaser or mortgagee dealing
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
18, to bar the remainders or reversion over, and if he convey his interest to another, such other will be only a tenant pur autre vie, and will be punishable for waste. Apparently, impossibility will not be … from a particular wife, if she die without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct. Only a donee in tail-special can become such a tenant, for if the
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