Tenant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lord in Gross
the king in respect of his crown, etc. Very lord, is he who is immediate lord to his tenant; and very tenant, he who holds immediately of that lord. So that, where there is lord paramount, lord
Release
as where a coparcener conveys his estate to his coparcener, or where one of more than two joint tenants conveys his interest to one or more but not all of the others so as to sever that
Homage
[fr. homo, Lat., a man], the most honourable service and most humble service of reverence that a free tenant might do to his lord. When a tenant performed it, he was unfit, and his head uncovered, the
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Uses
were mere choses in action. (4) A cestui que use in possession of the land was deemed a tenant at will only, for he had neither jus in re, i.e., an estate nor jus ad rem, i.e.,
Tenure
holder. There is then no allodial land in England. Those who held immediately from the king were called tenants in capite (in chief), which was the most honourable tenure. This was of two kinds, either ut de
Salami
free gift by way of compliment or in return of a favour'. Salami is a payment by the tenant as a present or as price for parting by the landlord with his rights under the lease of
Protector of the settlement
this 'special' protector, the statutory protector, i.e., the owner of the first (sufficient) estate in possession, e.g., the tenant for life under the same settlement, was and is a statutory protector. The special protector was to be
Ne injuste vexes
Ne injuste vexes, a writ founded on Magna Charta that lay for a tenant distrained by his lord, for more services than he ought to perform; and it was a prohibition to
Extinguishment
it, this legal trap should be allowed to operate, Burton's Comp., 8th Edn. 352. If one of the tenants of a manor purchase any part of the land over which he has a right of common appendant,
Ejectment
continuance of his term. Appended to this declara-tion was a notice signed by Richard Roe, addressed to the tenant in possession (who was the actual defendant), informing him of the action brought by the lessee, and that
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