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Tenant of buildings

Tenant of buildings, when the landlord had let the residential building together with the appurtenant land, tenancy would not be tenancy of land. Thus the tenant of land without a residential building is not tenant

Resumption

as on false suggestion had been granted by letters-patent, Bro. Ab. 291. 2. By agricultural landlord, before legal tenancy ended, of the tenant's land (generally in part only) for building, etc., purposes, making an abatement of rent

Rent

v. New Delhi Municipality, AIR 1962 SC 554. Rent, includes all that is payable as consideration for the tenancy. The essential services having been ensured, the tenant is liable to pay it by way of service charge.

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Renewal fee

'renewal fee' is the fee or fees payable by a kanam-tenant to his jenmi under the contract of tenancy for the renewal of the legal relationship under which the kanam-tenant has been holding any land, Cochin Devaswom

Per my et per tout

see Co. Litt. 186 a. If any joint tenant severs by alienating his share he destroys the joint tenancy in that share and the grantee obtains no joint tenancy. See JOINT TENANTS; ENTIRETIES.

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the owners of those adjoining lands, in equal moieties, as tenants in common, or would so belong if tenancy in undivided shares in a legal estate had not been done away with by the land legislation of

Khudkhast

proprietor by surrender, abandonment or otherwise, Harihar Prasad Singh v. Deonarain Prasad, AIR 1956 SC 305 (308). (Bihar Tenancy Act, 1885, s. 116. According to s. 3(9) of the U.P. Tenancy Act, Khudkasht means any land other

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

Holding

right given by the superior to the vassal. Holding is defined by s. 2(2) of the Travancore-Cochin Kanam Tenancy Act, 1955 as a parcel or parcels of land held under a single engagement by a tenant as

sufferance

by a lack of interference or failure to enforce a prohibition see also estate at sufferance at estate tenancy at sufferance at tenancy

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