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Page 49 - The material question in the case was whether a steam engine set up for the benefit of a colliery by a tenant for life should be considered as personal estate and go to his executor, or fixed to the freehold and go to the remainder-man.
Page 35 - ... they were intended to be part of the land, the onus of showing that they were so intended lying on those who assert that they have ceased to be chattels, and, that, on the contrary, an article which is affixed to the land even slightly is to be considered as part of the land...
Page 86 - Factory or work-shop" means any premises on which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade, or fur purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them ; that is to say, (a.) In or incidental to the making...
Page 37 - Between the executors of tenant for life or in tail, and the remainder-man or reversioner; in which case the right to fixtures is considered more favourably for executors than in the preceding case between heir and executor.
Page 374 - ... the compensation which the occupier pays the landlord for that species of occupation which the contract between them allows.
Page 174 - Lord, and he liked well of it, our gentry are grown so ignorant in every thing of good husbandry, that they know not how to bestow this corne : which, did they understand but a little trade, they would be able to joyne together, and know what markets there are abroad, and send it thither, and thereby ease their tenants and be able to pay themselves.
Page 369 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 89 - ... after having carefully considered the character of the machinery in question, that the whole of it, though some of it may be capable of being removed without injury to itself or to the freehold, is essentially necessary to the shipbuilding business, to which the appellant's premises are devoted, and must be taken to be intended to remain permanently attached to them so long as these premises are applied to their present purpose.
Page 86 - ... trade machinery by the owner thereof which would be a bill of sale as to any other personal chattels shall be deemed to be a bill of sale within the meaning of this act. For the purposes of this act — " Trade machinery " means the machinery used in or attached to any factory or workshop ; 1st.
Page 50 - But, in my opinion, in all these cases, whether it be paper, or satin (or panels), or tapestry, they are all part of the wall itself, and they are fixtures not to be removed. In all these cases, the question is not whether the thing itself is easily removable, but whether it is essentially a part of the building...

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