Search results for: “common tenancy”
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Single
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Single Meaning of Single Affecting only one person ; alone; one only; an unmarried person. Related Entries of Single in the Encyclopedia of Law Project Browse or […]
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Eviction
Dispossession of a tenant by a landlord . An expulsion by the assertion of a paramount title or by process of law. A physical expulsion is not always necessary, for any disturbance in or deprivation or cessation of the possession of the tenant is sufficient to constitute […]
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Tenant at Sufferance
A tenant who originally comes into possession under a lawful title but holds possession after his right has terminated, such as an overholding tenant, was at common law called a tenant at sufferance and the lessor was entitled to evict him at any time. See Sufferance, tenancy at.
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Right
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Right Meaning of Right In its legal sense, the term denotes the liberty or privilege conferred or protected by law of doing or abstaining from doing an act or the power or privilege enforced by law of […]
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Unity of Possession
An essential requirement of joint tenancy, it means that all joint tenants are equally in possession of the entire property and not merely in respect of a share.
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Joint
United; combined; shared by or between two or more persons; coupled together interest or liability.
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Convey
To transport , carry , take from one place to another; to lead or conduct the channel or medium, transmit ; be the medium of, conduct and transmit (sounds and other sensuous impressions). To pass or transmit title to property , to transfer property.
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Dilapidation
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Dilapidation Meaning of Dilapidation A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the incumbent suffers any edifices of his ecclesiastical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, […]
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Unity of Title
One of the incidents of joint tenancy is that all the joint tenants must have right of title under the same instrument unlike tenants in common who may take property by different titles.
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Several
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Several Meaning of Several An obligation is said to be several when it is not joint and can be enforced independently of each other . where an obligation is several, that is, where more than one person […]
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Forcible Entry
The offense of entering any land or tenements in a violent manner in order to take possession thereof, whether the violence consists in actual force applied to any other person or in threats, or in breaking open any house.
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Concurrent Interests
English Legal System: Concurrent InterestsIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Concurrent Interests : Ownership of land by two or more persons at the same time; for example, *joint tenancy and *tenancy in common.
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Between
Intervening time, space, position or state v Johnson, 275 So. 405.
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Equal
Impartial, uniform; to make equivalent to, to recompense fully, to answer in full proportion. The term implies not identity but duality and the use of one thing as the measure of another. Poidexter v Willis, 256 N.E.2d 254, 23 Ohio Misc. 199.