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Real representative

in whom all his real estate except copyhold was vested notwithstanding his will, unless, as in a joint tenancy, any other person had a right to take by survivorship, so that one and the same person had

Tenant

embraces in itself, the heirs of the deceased called 'statutory tenants' as even after the determination of the tenancy continued to have an estate on the tenanted premises, which are heritable, Kasturi Lal v. Brimlal, 1986 Sim … heirs of the deceased tenant in the absence of any provision in the Rent Act to the contrary will step into the position of the deceased tenant and all the rights and obligations of the deceased tenant

Consummation

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in … of any words to limit the connotation of the word 'consumption' to the final act of consumption, it will be proper to think that the Constitution-makers used the word to connote any kind of user which is

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Consumption and use

Consummation, of tenancy by the curtesy is when a husband, upon his wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in … of any words to limit the connotation of the word 'consumption' to the final act of consumption, it will be proper to think that the Constitution-makers used the word to connote any kind of user which is

Mortgage

have been received, this is in the nature of a Welsh mortgage, and has been compared to a tenancy by elegit. In order to protect a necessitous mortgagor from the exacting grasp of an inexorable mortgagee, equity … debtor loan and interest within the time mentioned in a clause technically called the proviso for redemption, he will be entitled to have his property again free from the mortgagee's claim; but should he not comply with

Hut

for the floor at the plinth level, is not constructed of masonry or reinforced concrete, West Bengal Thika Tenancy (Acquisition and Regulation) Act, 2001, s. 2(4). … 2(24)] The expression 'hut' cannot be restricted only to huts or cottages intended to be lived in. It will also take in any shed, hut or other crude or third class construction consisting of an enclosure made

Husband and wife

favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will. Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,' … be treated as two persons. Under s. 39, ibid., and the 6th sched. To that Act, Part III, tenancies by entireties was converted to joint tenancies upon trust for sale, and by s. 184, ibid., in cases

Customary freeholds

the custom is insome manors, surrender and admittance, thelatter ceremony being necessary only to mark the change of tenancy, Cruise's Dig., tit. X., c. i. s. 9. … as estates inprivileged villenage or villein socage, and are estates held by custom, but not at the lord's will, in which they differ from copyholds; yet the will of the lord in copyhold is reduced to a

Attornment

who has derived his title or supposed title from the original landlord. It implies a continuity of the tenancy created by the original landlord in favour of the tenant. It is in these circumstances that the existing … future payment or non-payment of rent does not affect the relationship created by the attornment. The new landlord will have his remedies with respect to the rents falling in arrears, U.V.V. Satyanarayanraju v. J. Hanumayamma, AIR 1967

Curtesy of England

a husband has for his life in his wife's fee-simple or fee-tail estates, generalor special, aftr her death. Tenancy by the curtesy has been abolished by the (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 45, with regard to the … to the inheritance of every person dying after 1925, but undr s. 130, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, curtesy will arise as an equitable interest in any property realor personal as an incident to an equitable intrest in-tail

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