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Fief
Fief, a fee; a manor, a possession held by some tenant of a superior. Yet a phorically the term refers to an area of dominion or governmental bureaucracy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 640. Fiefs were
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Contradiction in terms
Contradiction in terms, a phrase of which the parts are expressly inconsistent, as e.g., 'murder but not wilful,' 'a fee-simple for
Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
of all legal estates or tenures in land, except an estate in fee simple in possession, and a term of years absolute in or in certain incorporeal hereditaments arising out of annexed to or charged upon the
Rent
two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It … which the right of recovering a rent-charge is barred, see Shaw v. Crompton, (1910) 2 KB 370. (3) Fee farm rent, one issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one-fourth of the value of
Merger
rule; for a man may have in his own right both an estate tail and a reversion in fee; and the estate tail, though a less estate, will not merge in the fee, 2 Bl. Com. 177. … another, and differs from suspension, which is but a partial extinguishment for a time; while extinguishment, properly so termed, is the destruction of a collateral thing in the subject itself out of which it is derived. 'In
Settled land
Where the settlement consists of more instruments than one it is commonly called a 'compound settlement,' though this term is not defined in the Acts themselves; as to compound settlements, see Re Du Cane & Nettlefold, (1898) … innovations which bring it into line with the rest of the land legislation of 1925, so that a fee-simple in possession or a term of years absolute (which are the only legal estates in existence) should be
Fee-simple
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Tenure
and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334. Means a … only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND).
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