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Tenant by sufferance
Matched in: Term Tenant by sufferance
Tenant at sufferance
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Sufferance, Tenancy at
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Recovery
recovery. An abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions … on the supposition of an adverse claim; and (2) the recovery-deed, which was partly a preparatory step to suffering the recovery, and partly a declaration of the uses when suffered. This method barring an estate-tail by a
Waste
Waste [fr. vastum, Lat.], any spoil or destruction in houses, gardens, trees, etc., by a tenant; as to what acts amount to waste, see Co. Litt. 53 a. It is either (1) legal, sub-divided … or a part thereof, or ploughs up ancient meadow, and (b) permissive or omissive, as where a tenant suffers a house to fall out of repair; or (2) equitable, which comprehends acts not deemed waste at Common
tenancy
by specified time periods (as months) without a lease and that may be terminated by the landlord or tenant after giving proper notice tenancy at sufferance : holdover tenancy in this entry tenancy at will : a
Landlord and tenant
Matched in: Term Landlord and tenant
Year to year, tenancy from
term, without having entered into any new contract, and pays rent (before which he is a tenant on sufferance), and in such cases the tenant holds over on such terms of the old tenancy lease as are … as when property is occupied generally under a yearly rent, payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly; or when such tenant holds over, after the expiration of his term, without having entered into any new contract, and pays rent
Ejectment
was changed to 'Recovery of Land.' See that title. Possession can be obtained by a landlord against his tenant by summary proceedings before two justices, under the Small Tenements Recovery Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 74), … and advising him to appear at a certain time and defend his title, otherwise he, Richard Roe, would suffer judgment by default, by which the actual tenant would be turned out of possession by the sheriff under
Common
called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing in some agreement between lords and tenants, for some valuable consideration which, by lapse of time, being formed into a prescription, continues, although there be … a now forgotten grant. (c) Because of vicinage or neighbourhood where the tenants of two adjoining townships have suffered their cattle to range indiscriminately over both wastes, and it seems that either lord may put an end
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