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Surrender

by the delivery and acceptance of keys, by the entering of the parties into a new contract of tenancy, or by the landlord accepting a new tenant. See Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant. 1. The act of yielding

Sayar

of the Act the word 'sayar' is to have the meaning assigned to it in the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939. In the 1939 Tenancy Act sayar includes whatever is to be paid or delivered by a

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

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Landlord and tenant

Landlord and tenant. A tenancy arises when the owner of an estate inland, called the lessor or landlord, agrees expressly or by implication

Fixtures

that it is removable by a tenant before, or within a reasonable time after, the termination of the tenancy, subject, however, to the tenant paying any rent due, etc., avoiding or making good damage, giving the landlord

unity

of the immovable and movables] 2 : an aspect (as time, title, interest, or possession) of a joint tenancy that must be identical as it relates to the cotenants [such a conveyance severs the joint tenancy by

co-owner

co-owner : one of two or more individuals or entities owning property together (as by joint tenancy, tenancy in common, or tenancy by the entirety)

Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)

1933, the decontrol is suspended until registration, see Stokes v. Little, (1935) 1 KB 182. 'Controlled' or 'statutory tenancy' means that the rent is limited by those Acts and that the tenancy cannot be determined unless the

Unity of possession

for his rent, is now become lord and owner of the land, Termes de la Ley. See JOINT TENANCY; TENANCY IN COMMON.

Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890

Tenants' Compensation Act, to remedy this hardship, provided that where a person occupies land under a contract of tenancy (whenever made) with the mortgagor, which is not binding on the mortgagee, the occupier shall, as against the

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