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...