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Property
- Adverse PossessionThis is the process which results in the acquisition of legal title of land, without actually paying for...
- Break ClauseThis is a clause which allows a tenant to end a lease at specific times during the period of the...
- ChattelThis refers to any property except freehold...
- Common HoldA form of freehold land ownership, as an alternative to long leasehold...
- DilapidationsAn assesment of a tenant's liabilities under repairing covenants in a...
- EasementAn 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...
- EncumbranceAn obligation affecting a property, generally in a negative...
- EquityIn property terms, normally used to describe the difference between the outstanding mortgage and the value of a...
- EvictionRemoving a tenant from their rented...
- FixtureThis refers to a permanently fixed piece of furniture or equipment on a...
- FreeholdWhen one has absolute title on a...
- Gas Safe You may have experience as a plumber or fitter but the question is, are you allowed to connect water and gas pipes to a boiler? Common sense might suggest that a plumber or pipe fitter has the necessary skills to fit pipes whether they carry gas or...
- Ground RentMoney that needs to be paid under...
- HabitableProperty which is suitable and fit for a person to live...
- Habitual residenceThe place of a person’s home or...
- Her Majesty's Land RegistryGovernment Department that holds information regarding property ownership...
- Holdover TenancyA 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 TenantsWhere people jointly own assets or property. The ownership passes to the survivor on the death of the other...
- Land RegistryA body that maintains records of who owns property and what conditions relate to the...
- LandlordProperty owner who rents it out to a...
- LeaseThe letting of land for a prescribed...
- LeaseholdWhere property is owned for a limited...
- Loss of UseThis is where a property cannot be used in the normal way for some...
- Mesne ProfitsSum of money claimed by the owner of property against someone not legally entitled to be in...
- Notice to QuitGives prior notice, when served in possession proceedings, of termination of a...
- OccupancyHolding or possessing...
- OusterAn order within an injunction to force a person to leave a...
- Party WallA wall dividing two separate premises - the joint responsibility of both...
- Planning permissionWhen the Local Authority approval the building, extension or change of use of a...
- Possession ProceedingsLegal proceedings by a landlord to recover land or...
- PremisesA building or part...
- Proprietary Estoppel Proprietary estoppel is a fair, or equitable, remedy to stop the legal owner of a property from asserting their strict legal positon when it would be unfair or inequitable for him to do so. For a successful claim of proprietary estoppel, the claimant must...
- Quiet EnjoymentThese are the implied obligations of a landlord to ensure that their tenant is not disturbed in their...
- RealtyLand...
- Reasonable Wear and TearDamage to a property as a result of normal...
- ReposessionTaking possession of a property, usually due to lack of payment of rent or...
- Restrictive covenantAn agreement which prevents a property purchaser from building on or using the property in a certain...
- SquatterA person occupying land or property without the owners...
- Sub-LettingThe renting of a property by a...
- TenantSomeone who rents a property from a...
- Tenants in commonWhere more than one party owns a property but each party has a specified...
- TenureThe type of property...
- TitleThe owner's right to a...
- Title DeedsDocuments which act as evidence of ownership and set out any obligations or rights which affect the...
- TrespassInvasion of private...
- Warrant of RestitutionA 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...