Tenure - Law Dictionary Search Results
Occupation
(2005) 8 SCC 481. Means 'to take possession of, occupy, employ', Webster's Third New Dictionary. Means possession control, tenure, use, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn. Occupation, possession; act of taking possession; also, trade or mystery; and see
Peshcush
Peshcush, a present, particularly to government, in consideration of an appointment, or as an acknowledgement of a tenure. Also tribute, fine, quit-rent, or advance, or stipulated revenues, Indian.
Outsucken multures
paid by persons voluntarily grinding corn at any mill to which they are not thirled or bound by tenure. See INSUCKEN MULTURES.
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Parage or Paragium
inheritance between coheirs; more properly, however, an equality of condition among nobles, or persons holding by a noble tenure. Thus, when a fiet is divided among brothers, the younger hold their part of the elder by parage,
Sequels
allowances of meal, or manufactured victual, made to the servants at a mill where corn was ground, by tenure, in Scotland. See THIRLAGE.
Partition, Deed of
several allotments to the respective parties according to his award. In Kent, where the land was of gavelkind tenure, they called these partitions shifting, from the Saxon, shiftan, to divide. For the present practice, see PARTITION.
Passive trust
such, they continued to flourish, notwithstanding the singular amelioration effected at a later period in the law of tenure, because the legal ownership was attended with some peculiar inconveniences. For, in order to guard against the forfeiture
Permanent
appointment, so as to distinguish it from a mere acting, or temporary appointment. It is a fixity of tenure though not for any fixed period, duration of such service will depend on the rules and conditions governing
Personal cultivation
cultivation by or on behalf of the owner of the land. It is quite clear that under the tenure known as Bhagchar, the cultivator shares his crop with the owner. So, when he grows the crop he
Scutage
three marks for every knight's fee (obsolete long before 12 Car. 2, c. 24, which abolished the military tenure, Steph. Com., ii., Ch. on 'Tenures.' See ESCUAGE. Means a monetary payment levied by the king or barons
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