Property

  • Adverse Possession

    This is the process which results in the acquisition of legal title of land, without actually paying for...

  • Break Clause

    This is a clause which allows a tenant to end a lease at specific times during the period of the...

  • Chattel

    This refers to any property except freehold...

  • Common Hold

    A form of freehold land ownership, as an alternative to long leasehold...

  • Dilapidations

    An assesment of a tenant's liabilities under repairing covenants in a...

  • Easement

    An interest in land owned by a different party which entitles its holder to a specific use or...

  • Encroachment

    When a portion of a building, wall or fence extends beyond the land of the owner and intrudes upon that of an adjoining...

  • Encumbrance

    An obligation affecting a property, generally in a negative...

  • Equity

    In property terms, normally used to describe the difference between the outstanding mortgage and the value of a...

  • Eviction

    Removing a tenant from their rented...

  • Fixture

    This refers to a permanently fixed piece of furniture or equipment on a...

  • Freehold

    When one has absolute title on a...

  • Ground Rent

    Money that needs to be paid under...

  • Habitable

    Property which is suitable and fit for a person to live...

  • Habitual residence

    The place of a person’s home or...

  • Her Majesty's Land Registry

    Government Department that holds information regarding property ownership...

  • Holdover Tenancy

    A tenancy which arises because someone remains in possession of a property after the expiration of the previous...

  • Indenture

    A deed or other document binding two or more...

  • Joint Tenants

    Where people jointly own assets or property. The ownership passes to the survivor on the death of the other...

  • Land Registry

    A body that maintains records of who owns property and what conditions relate to the...

  • Landlord

    Property owner who rents it out to a...

  • Lease

    The letting of land for a prescribed...

  • Leasehold

    Where property is owned for a limited...

  • Loss of Use

    This is where a property cannot be used in the normal way for some...

  • Mesne Profits

    Sum of money claimed by the owner of property against someone not legally entitled to be in...

  • Notice to Quit

    Gives prior notice, when served in possession proceedings, of termination of a...

  • Occupancy

    Holding or possessing...

  • Ouster

    An order within an injunction to force a person to leave a...

  • Party Wall

    A wall dividing two separate premises - the joint responsibility of both...

  • Planning permission

    When the Local Authority approval the building, extension or change of use of a...

  • Possession Proceedings

    Legal proceedings by a landlord to recover land or...

  • Premises

    A building or part...

  • Quiet Enjoyment

    These are the implied obligations of a landlord to ensure that their tenant is not disturbed in their...

  • Realty

    Land...

  • Reasonable Wear and Tear

    Damage to a property as a result of normal...

  • Reposession

    Taking possession of a property, usually due to lack of payment of rent or...

  • Restrictive covenant

    An agreement which prevents a property purchaser from building on or using the property in a certain...

  • Squatter

    A person occupying land or property without the owners...

  • Sub-Letting

    The renting of a property by a...

  • Tenant

    Someone who rents a property from a...

  • Tenants in common

    Where more than one party owns a property but each party has a specified...

  • Tenure

    The type of property...

  • Title

    The owner's right to a...

  • Title Deeds

    Documents which act as evidence of ownership and set out any obligations or rights which affect the...

  • Trespass

    Invasion of private...

  • Warrant of Restitution

    A remedy available following illegal re-entry of premises by persons evicted under a warrant of possession, whereby a bailiff is authorised to evict all occupants found on the premises and re-deliver the premises to the...
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