The Law of Landlord and Tenant: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Law Institution

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T. & J.W. Johnson, 1856 - 436 pages

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Page 97 - that all leases, estates, interests of freehold, or terms of years, or any uncertain interest, of, in, to, or out of any messuages, manors, &c.
Page 103 - It may be laid down for a rule, that, whatever words are sufficient to explain the intent of the parties, that the one shall divest himself of the possession, and the other come into it, for...
Page 97 - Every contract for the leasing for a longer period than one year, .or for the sale of any lands or any interest in lands, shall be void, unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing, and be subscribed by the party by whom the lease or sale is to be made.
Page 185 - The only question therefore is, whether the machines when fixed were parcel of the freehold; and this is a question of fact, depending on the circumstances of each case, and principally on two considerations; first, the mode of annexation to the soil or fabric of the house, and the extent to which it is united to them, whether it can easily be removed integre, salve, et commode, or not, without injury to itself or the fabric of the building...
Page 177 - ... other payments, if entitled thereto, but so that persons liable to pay rents reserved by any lease or demise, and the lands, tenements, and hereditaments comprised therein, shall not be resorted to for such apportioned parts specifically as aforesaid; but the entire rents of which such portions shall form a part shall be received and recovered by the person or persons who, if this act had not passed, would have been entitled to such entire rents; and such portions shall be recoverable* from such...
Page 361 - ... by entry for non-payment of the rent, or for doing of waste or other forfeiture...
Page 177 - Act, shall be apportioned so and in such manner that on the death of any person interested in any such rents, annuities, pensions, dividends, nioduses, compositions, or other payments as aforesaid, or in the estate, fund, office, or benefice from or in respect of which the same shall be issuing or derived, or on the determination by any other means whatsoever of the interest of any such person...
Page 92 - No lease or grant of agricultural land, for a longer period than twelve years, hereafter made, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.
Page 109 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing...
Page 211 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...

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