Land Law Definitions:
Absolute ownership: Fee simple absolute - the owner of the freehold estate who can do with his land that which he pleases.
Actual occupation: Living in the property.
Bankruptcy: A state whereby a person/business cannot afford to make its outstanding payments to its creditors.
Charge: Security, much like a mortgage.
Co-ownership: Whenever one or more persons purchase real property together they are considered co-owners of the property, e.g. tenancy in common and joint tenancy.
Covenants: A promise made in a deed, requiring someone to do/not to do something.
Deed: A legal document (which complies with the LP(MP)A 1989 s.1), required to create legal estates/interests in land.
Doctrine of estates: The division of land based on time, allowing one piece of land to have multiple freehold/leasehold owners in present or future.
E-conveyancing: The online transfer of legal estate where the title is unregistered.
Easements: A proprietary right exercised over the servient land for the benefit of another, dominant, piece of land (can be positive or negative).
Estates in land:
Estoppel:
Exclusive possession:
Fee simple:
Fee tail:
Freehold covenants:
Freehold estate:
Indemnity:
Injunction:
Joint tenancy:
Land:
Leasehold covenants:
Leashold estate:
Lease:
Legal easement:
Licences:
Mistake:
Mortgages:
Notice:
Overreaching:
Overriding interests:
Possessory title:
Privity of estate:
Proprietary estoppel:
Qualified title:
Registered land:
Rent:
Rentcharges:
Restrictions:
Restrictive covenants:
Specific performance:
Successive interest in land:
Successive ownership of land:
Tenancy in common:
Tenant for life:
Trust:
Undue influence:
Unregistered conveyancing:
Unregistered land:
Actual occupation: Living in the property.
Bankruptcy: A state whereby a person/business cannot afford to make its outstanding payments to its creditors.
Charge: Security, much like a mortgage.
Co-ownership: Whenever one or more persons purchase real property together they are considered co-owners of the property, e.g. tenancy in common and joint tenancy.
Covenants: A promise made in a deed, requiring someone to do/not to do something.
Deed: A legal document (which complies with the LP(MP)A 1989 s.1), required to create legal estates/interests in land.
Doctrine of estates: The division of land based on time, allowing one piece of land to have multiple freehold/leasehold owners in present or future.
E-conveyancing: The online transfer of legal estate where the title is unregistered.
Easements: A proprietary right exercised over the servient land for the benefit of another, dominant, piece of land (can be positive or negative).
Estates in land:
Estoppel:
Exclusive possession:
Fee simple:
Fee tail:
Freehold covenants:
Freehold estate:
Indemnity:
Injunction:
Joint tenancy:
Land:
Leasehold covenants:
Leashold estate:
Lease:
Legal easement:
Licences:
Mistake:
Mortgages:
Notice:
Overreaching:
Overriding interests:
Possessory title:
Privity of estate:
Proprietary estoppel:
Qualified title:
Registered land:
Rent:
Rentcharges:
Restrictions:
Restrictive covenants:
Specific performance:
Successive interest in land:
Successive ownership of land:
Tenancy in common:
Tenant for life:
Trust:
Undue influence:
Unregistered conveyancing:
Unregistered land: