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tenants in common

tenants in common A tenancy by two or more persons, in divided shares. At the death of one tenant, the property passes to

Fines in copyholds

whether that change is effected by the act of God, or by the tenant's own act. Whenever the tenancy is changed, a fine is payable. Those fines which are due to licenses by the lord, to empower

Apportionment

and remaindermen, but between receiver and payer, as between a landlord and a tenant, so that if a tenancy be determined in the middle of a quarter, the landlord gets rent up to the day of determination,

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Allowance

payments made, under custom of the country or agreement, by landlord to tenant on the determination of agricultural tenancy, to compensate the tenant for outlay on seed, labour, or crops, of which he cannot reap the benefit

Advow, or Avow, or Avouch

fee to defend the right of the tenant involved the admission of all the duties implied in feudal tenancy, it was an act jealously looked after by the lords, and advocare, or the equivalent, Fr. avouer, to

Abridge

Abridge [fr. abreger, Fr., abbreviare, Lat.], to make shorter in words retaining the substance. Also the making a declaration or count shorter by subtracting or severing some of the substance therefrom, i.e., a man was said...

Demesne

chief manor place with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy a house and the land adjoining kept for the proprietors own use

undertenant

undertenant : a tenant (as a sublessee) who takes some part of the tenancy of another tenant (as a lessee) used esp. in New York

tenants by the entirety

tenants by the entirety A joint tenancy between husband and wife. At the death of one spouse, the property passes to the other spouse. Source:

At any time

constantly, Ibrahimpatnam Taluk Vyavasaya Coolie Sangham v. K. Suresh Reddy, (2003) 7 SCC 667. [Andhra Pradesh (Telengana Area) Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1950, s. 50B(4)]

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