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Absolute warrandice

Absolute warrandice, a warranting or assuring of property against all mankind, Scots Conveyancing Phrase. It is, in effect, a covenant of title....


Beneficial owner

Beneficial owner, See COVENANTS, TITLE FOR, and also s. 76 of the (English) L. P. Act, 1925, replacing s. 7, Conveyancing Act, 1881.means a person whose name is recorded as such with a depository. [Depositories Act, 1996 (22 of 1996), s. 2 (1) (a)]Means a person having the right to deal with the shares as his own, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 8(1), 4th Edn., Para 2183, p. 2182; Brookland Selangor Holdings Ltd. v. IRC, (1970) 2 All ER 76: (1970) 1 WLR 429; Baytrust Holdings Ltd. v. IRC, (1971) 3 All ER 76: (1971) 1 WLR 1333; Holmleigh Holdings Ltd. v. IRC, (1958) 37 ATC 406....


Stranger

Stranger, means a person, not a party to an act, contract or title, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889.Means an outsider or foreigner, Webster American Dictionary, p. 144.The word 'stranger', had to be understood not in terms of blood or marriage relationship with the family but as a person unconnected with it, unknown in character and antecedents to the executants of the Deed. The word 'stranger' in the text has, in our view, to be interpreted as that person who has no connection whatsoever with the families of the original executants i.e., the father and two sons, Vijaylakshmi v. B. Himantharaya Chetty, AIR 1996 SC 2146 (2149): (1996) 9 SCC 376.1. One who is not party to a given transaction 2. One not standing toward another in some relation in plied in context, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433.Strangers, in the Parliament of India, the strangers are admitted during the sittings of the House to those portions of the House which are not exclusively reserved for me...


Squatter

Squatter, a squatter is one who settles or locates on land enclosed with no bona fide claim or color of title and without the consent of the owner, AIR 1968 Punj 470 (473). (Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 76)If a squatter wrongfully encloses a bit of waste land, and builds a hut on it, and lives there, he acquires an estate in fee-simple by his own wrong iin the land which he has enclosed. He may, of course, be turned out by legal process until his title is confirmed by the Statute of Limitations; but as long as he remains he has an estate in fee-simple: Williams on Seisin, p. 7. It has even been held that he will be bound by the restrictive covenant of a former owner even after he has acquired a statutory title, Re Nisbet and Pott's Contract, (1906) 1 Ch 386.1. A person who settles on property without any legal claim or title 2. A person who settles on public land under a government regulation allowing the person to acquire title upon fulfilling specified conditions, Black's Law Diction...


Constructive notice

Constructive notice. The knowledge which is imputed to a party: (a) if he omits to make the usual and proper inquiry into the title of property which he has purchased; (b) if he omits to investigate some fact which has been brought to his notice suggesting the existence of such title or claim; (c) if he deliberately refrains from inquiry in order to avoid notice. See Halsbury, L.E., vol. 13, and the person affected with constructive notice takes, if at all, subject to the title or claim, whether he knew of it or not; for instance, a purchaser of land who is satisfied to take a shorter title than he could call for by statute is affected by notice of all trusts and equities of which he would have had notice if he had seen the full title. See Cox and Neve's Contract, (1891) 2 Ch 109; Patman v. Harland, (1881) 17 CD 353 illustrates the doctrine. It was there held that: (a) notice of a material document is notice of its contents, and (b) although the (English) Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874...


Contract for sale of land

Contract for sale of land. The incidents of a contract for sale of land re regulated partly by statute and partly by the practice of conveyancers. A contract for sale of land must be in writing, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 40. See FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. If the contract is a simple, unconditional, or open contract for sale of land, it is implied that the vendor is to make a good title to the land for an estate in fee simple free from incumbrances, Hughes v. Parker, 8 M & W 344. He is under an obligation to show a good title (in ordinary circumstances for the thirty years preceding the date of contract, see ABSTRACT), and to prove that title by sufficient evidence. the expenses of showing the title, i.e., the abstract, falls on the vendor and so also the expenses of production of material documents in his possession or in that of his trustees an mortgagees. The expenses of production for verification of those which are not in such possession are to be borne by the purchaser, (English) L.P....


Quiet enjoyment

Quiet enjoyment. A qualified covenant for quiet enjoyment is usually inserted in leases and excludes the implied covenant, which is far more extensive. For the implied covenant may guarantee the lessee against any lawful entry whatever, whereas the express covenant, as usually worded, guarantees the lessee only against entry by the lessor or persons 'claiming by, from, or under him,' so that a lessor having no title to the demised premises may safely enter into the qualified covenant for quiet enjoyment, for an ejectment of the lessee by the real owner would not be an ejectment by a person claiming by the lessor, but against him, See Woodfall, L. & T., and Baynes v. Lloyd, (1895) 2 QB 610; Jones v. Lavington, (1903) 1 KB 253.A covenant for quiet enjoyment is implied by virtue of s. 7 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, reproduced under ss. 76 and 77 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, Sched. 2, Parts 1, 2, in any conveyance for value made after the commencement of that Act by a pers...


Abstract of title

Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...


Tort

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court which could have been commenced in County Court, see s. 47, and COUNTY COURT. An action founded on tort was Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court whic...


sale

sale 1 a : the transfer of title to property from one party to another for a price ;also : the contract of such a transaction see also short compare barter, donation, exchange, gift absolute sale : a sale that takes place without conditions and with title simply passing to the buyer upon payment of the price compare conditional sale in this entry bulk sale : a sale not in the ordinary course of the seller's business of more than half of the seller's inventory called also bulk transfer NOTE: Article 6 of the Uniform Commercial Code governs bulk sales. Under section 6-102(c), in order for a sale to be considered a bulk sale, the buyer (or an auctioneer or liquidator if the sale is an auction) must have been given notice or been able upon reasonable inquiry to have had notice that the seller will not afterward continue to operate the same or a similar kind of business. cash sale : a sale in which payment must be made in cash NOTE: Under U.C.C. section 2-310, payment must be made ...


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