AM

en-noun

AM (countable and uncountable, plural AMs)

AMs (plural)
A.M. (alternative)
A. M. (alternative)
A M (alternative)

automated mapping
automated mapping#English

(property law) Initialism of automated mapping, used in conjunction with Facilities Managements abbreviations (AM/FM).


accretion

accretion (countable and uncountable, plural accretions)

PIE word
 *h₂éd
Learned borrowing from Latin accrētiō (“increase, increment”) + English -ion (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results). Accrētiō is derived from accrēscō (“to grow, increase”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results); and accrēscō is from ac- (a variant of ad-, prefix meaning ‘to’, or having an intensifying effect) + crēscō (“to grow; to increase”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to cause to grow; to grow; to nourish”)).
Doublet of accrue, crescent, and increase.

af

-tiō<pos:suffix forming nouns denoting actions or processes, or their results>

ac-<pos:a variant of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">ad-</i>, prefix meaning ‘to’, or having an intensifying effect>

прираст

(gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; an instance of this

срастване

process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; thing formed in this manner — see also concretion

на́леп

something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally

(property law, uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.


profit

en-noun

profit (countable and uncountable, plural profits)

profits (plural)
ꝓfit (alternative abbreviation obsolete)

From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect.

der

profit à prendre
profit à prendre#English

(property law) Ellipsis of profit à prendre.


feu

(Scots law, property law, historical) Land held in feudal tenure.


charge

en-noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.


charge

en-verb

charge (third-person singular simple present charges, present participle charging, simple past and past participle charged)

charges (present singular third-person)
charging (participle present)
charged (participle past)
charged (past)

desc

→ Cantonese: 叉廚 /叉厨 (caa¹ cyu⁴), 叉 (caa¹)

→ Dutch: chargen

→ Kashubian: czardżowac (United States)

→ Malay: caj, cas

→ Sranan Tongo: tyars

→ Swahili: chaji

yükləmək

to place a burden upon, to assign a duty

yükləmək

to load equipment with material required for its use

(transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).


assent

en-noun

assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb), from Latin assentiō.

(countable, property law) A legal instrument that conveys real estate to an heir under the terms of a will.


ouster

From Old French ouster, oustre, a nominalization of Anglo-Norman oustre (“to oust”).

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(property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.


surrender

surrender (countable and uncountable, plural surrenders)

surrenders (plural)
surrendre (alternative)

From Middle English surrendre, from Anglo-Norman surrendre, infinitive as noun. Displaced native Old English handgang.

(law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

luovutus

law, property law: the yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord


overreach

en-verb

overreach (third-person singular simple present overreaches, present participle overreaching, simple past and past participle overreached or (obsolete) overraught)

overreaches (present singular third-person)
overreaching (participle present)
overreached (participle past)
overreached (past)
overraught (obsolete participle past)
overraught (obsolete past)

/ˌəʊvəˈɹiːt͡ʃ/

/ˌoʊvə(ɹ)ˈɹit͡ʃ/

The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- + reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over.

nb...

overreche, overreiche, (Northern England) overreke

أَنَافَ

to reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree

[A]n equitable mortgage, by deposit of deeds to a person, bona fide, and without notice, will give him a preferable equity; and will overreach the vendor's equitable lien on the estate for any part of the purchase-money.

1813, Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, “Of the Vendor’s Lien on the Estate Sold for the Purchase-money, if Not Paid”, in A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors & Purchasers of Estates, 4th edition, London: Printed for J[oseph] Butterworth, […], →OCLC, page 452:

Wood therefore cannot, in equity, be permitted to proceed in his ejectment suit, to recover possession of the land under the title he has acquired from the state, by the attorney general's sale, and which at law overreaches the complainant's title.

1834 October 21, Reuben H[yde] Walworth, Chancellor, New York Court of Chancery, “Kellogg vs. Wood”, in Alonzo C[hristopher] Paige, editor, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State of New-York, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: Published by Gould, Banks & Co. […]; Albany, N.Y.: W[illia]m & A. Gould & Co. […], →OCLC, page 616:

[page 215] City of London B[uilding] S[ociety] v. Flegg decided that the occupiers are not protected since a sale by two trustees overreaches. [...] [page 216] The Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the occupation of the Fleggs but, after universal academic execration, that decision was unanimously reversed by the [House of] Lords. Their occupation rights had indeed been overreached. [...] Two trustees effected what appeared to the lenders to be a proper mortgage, so that the rights of the beneficiaries were swept off the title and transferred to the mortgage money. The Fleggs could not enforce their rights against the lenders.

2003, Peter Sparkes, “Trusts of Land”, in A New Land Law, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Portland, Or.: Hart Publishing, →ISBN, pages 215 and 216:

(ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.

(transitive, property law) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (British, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.


regress

en-noun

regress (countable and uncountable, plural regresses)

(verb) From Latin regressus, past participle of regredior (“to go back”), from re- (“back”) + gradior (“to go”).

(property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.


underlet

en-verb

underlet (third-person singular simple present underlets, present participle underletting, simple past and past participle underlet)

underlets (present singular third-person)
underletting (participle present)
underlet (participle past)
underlet (past)

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underlet

(property law, informal) Synonym of sublease.


hotchpotch

hotchpotches (plural)
hotchpot (alternative)
hotchpotz (alternative)
hotch-pot (alternative)

/ˈhɒt͡ʃpɒt͡ʃ/

From French hochepot, from hocher (“to shake”) + pot (“pot”); of Dutch or German origin. Compare Dutch hutspot.

(property law) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, especially in the case of divorce or intestacy.


alienation

en-noun

alienation (usually uncountable, plural alienations)

From Middle English alienacioun, borrowed from Old French alienacion, itself borrowed from Latin aliēnātiōnem.

The most usual and universal method of acquiring a title to real estates is that of alienation, conveyance, or purchase in it's limited sense: under which may be comprized any method wherein estates are voluntarily resigned by one man, and accepted by another; whether that be effected by sale, gift, marriage settlement, devise, or other transmission of property by the mutual consent of the parties.

1768, William Blackstone, “Of Title by Alienation”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England:

(property law) The transfer of property to another person.


title

⇒ Wu: 抬頭 /抬头 (⁶de-deu)

→ Japanese: タイトル (taitoru)

→ Korean: 타이틀 (taiteul)

→ Welsh: teitl

From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, titlo, tittle, and titulus.

títol

section or division of a subject, as a law, lawbook, etc

a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title

(property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.


leasehold

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term of years absolute
term of years absolute

(property law) Of an estate in land, held for a term of years absolute by a lessee or tenant.


leasehold

en-noun

leasehold (countable and uncountable, plural leaseholds)

(property law) Real property held as an estate in land of this type.


freehold

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fee simple absolute in possession
fee simple absolute in possession

(property law) Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.


freehold

freehold (countable and uncountable, plural freeholds)

(property law) Real property held by a tenure of this type.


tenant

tenants (plural)
tenaunt (alternative obsolete)
tennant (alternative obsolete)
tennaunt (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English tenaunt, from Anglo-Norman tenaunt and Old French tenant, present participle of tenir (“to hold”), from Latin tenēre (“hold, keep”).

مُسْتَأجِر

one who pays a fee in return for the use of land, etc.

(in the Middle Ages, serf or villein) jobbágy

en:owner of real estate other than by allodial title

(property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.


commonhold

(property law, England and Wales) The freehold tenure of part of a multioccupancy building (typically a flat) with shared responsibility for common services.


amortize

en-verb

amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized)

amortizes (present singular third-person)
amortizing (participle present)
amortized (participle past)
amortized (past)
amortise (alternative UK)

From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).

(real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.


AHA

en-noun

AHA (countable and uncountable, plural AHAs)

Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy#English

(countable, property law, England and Wales) Initialism of Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy.


AHA

Agricultural Holdings Act
w:Agricultural Holdings Act

(countable, property law, England and Wales) Initialism of Agricultural Holdings Act.


AST

AST (countable and uncountable, plural ASTs)

assured shorthold tenancy
w:assured shorthold tenancy

(property law, real estate, England and Wales) Initialism of assured shorthold tenancy.


FBT

FBT (countable and uncountable, plural FBTs)

farm business tenancy
farm business tenancy#English

(countable, property law, England and Wales) Initialism of farm business tenancy.


lessor

lessors (plural)
lessour (alternative obsolete)

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From Middle English lessour, from Anglo-Norman lessour.

(property law) The owner of property that is leased; the landlord to a lease.


enfranchise

en-verb

enfranchise (third-person singular simple present enfranchises, present participle enfranchising, simple past and past participle enfranchised)

enfranchises (present singular third-person)
enfranchising (participle present)
enfranchised (participle past)
enfranchised (past)

From Old French enfranchir (“to set free, enfranchise”), from en- (“in”) + franchir (“to set free”), equivalent to en- + franchise.

uder

(property law, England and Wales, historical) to convert a copyhold estate into a freehold estate


cloud on title

clouds on title (plural)
cloud of title (alternative)

"Although the laws of a State cannot affect the equity jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts, when the former afford rules as to what shall be deemed clouds on title, the Circuit Courts of equity, in the exercise of an ancient chancery jurisdiction, may remove such clouds."

1856, “Bayerque v. Cohen et al.”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Districts of California, page 113:

"A cloud on title is an instrument which may be used vexatiously or injuriously against the owner of land, or which may cast suspicion on the validity of his title so as to render his land unsaleable at its full value."

1914, Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth, Modern American Law, page 88:

"Clouds on title are usually revealed by a title search and may be removed from the record by a quitclaim deed or a quiet title proceeding initiated by the property owner."

2000, John W. Reilly, The Language of Real Estate, page 71:

(property law) An encumbrance or claim on a title (ownership) to real property sufficient to interfere with title transfer until the problem has been resolved.


reversion

en-noun

reversion (countable and uncountable, plural reversions)

/ɹɪˈvɜːʒ(ə)n̩/

/ɹɪˈvɜːʃ(ə)n̩/

Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French reversion (modern réversion), from Latin reversio, from revertō. By surface analysis, revert + -sion.

Why nothing capital of my master's wardrobe has drop'd lately—but I could give you a mortgage on some of his winter Cloaths with equity of redemption before November or—you shall have the reversion—of the French velvet, or a post obit on the Blue and Silver—

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, III.ii:

Each day too slew it’s^([sic]) thousands six or seven,
Till at the crowning carnage—Waterloo—
They threw their pens down in divine disgust,
The page was so besmeared with blood and dust. […]
(Here, Sathan’s sole good work deserves insertion—
’Tis, that he has both Generals in reversion).

1822, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement, stanza 6:

By the spring of 1972, however, Peking’s general anti-Japanese offensive was fading away in any case, and in mid-May the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction brought the Self-Defense Forces into the vicinity of the Tiao Yü T’ai (or Senkaku). Peking accordingly dropped the issue as suddenly as it had taken it up.

1975, Harold C. Hinton, “Japan: Power and Problems”, in Three and A Half Powers: The New Balance in Asia, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223:

(property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.

(property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.

(property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.


sublet

en-verb

sublet (third-person singular simple present sublets, present participle subletting, simple past and past participle sublet)

sublets (present singular third-person)
subletting (participle present)
sublet (participle past)
sublet (past)

(transitive, property law) To grant a sublease out of property held under a lease.


sublet

(property law, real estate, informal) Synonym of sublease.


easement

en-noun

easement (countable and uncountable, plural easements)

From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”) + -ment (“-ment, suffix forming nouns, usually the action or state resulting from verbs”).

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The power company has an easement to put their electricity poles along the edge of this land.

Eaſement is a privilege that one Neighbour hath of another, by Writing or Preſcription, without profit; as a Way or a Sink through his Land, or ſuch like.

[1708, anonymous [attributed to John Rastell or William Rastell], “Easement”, in Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now in Use, Expounded and Explained. Now Corrected and Enlarged. With many Great and Useful Additions throughout the Whole Book, never Printed in any other Impression, corr. and enl. edition, London: Printed by Samuel Roycroft and James Rawlins, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, →OCLC, page 278:

[page 1] That branch of these accessorial rights which confers merely a convenience to be exercised over the neighbouring land, without any participation in the profit of it, is called, by the law of England, Easements, as rights to the passage of light, air, and water. […] [page 2] The origin of some easements is as ancient as that of property—one tenement may be subjected to the convenience of another by the hand of nature itself—the inferior elevation of one in relation to the other, may subject it to the fall of water from the higher ground.

1839, C[harles] J[ames] Gale, T[homas] D[enman] Whatley, “Introduction”, in A Treatise on the Law of Easements, London: Printed for S. Sweet, 1, Chancery Lane, law bookseller and publisher; Dublin: Hodges and Smith, →OCLC, pages 1–2:

The 1955 Act gave powers for compulsory acquisition of "easements", or permission to tunnel beneath dwelling houses instead of, as had previously been necessary, following approximately the course of surface roads.

1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 258:

The Lake Company actually had an easement – a right to flood some of this land – dating from 1845.

1991, Theodore Steinberg, “Maturation: The Struggle over Water”, in Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 133:

Pacific Telephone had an easement "for the stringing of telephone and electric light and power wires" over the property of Salvaty.

2002, William H. Pivar, Robert J[acques] Bruss, “Adjacent Property Rights”, in California Real Estate Law, 5th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Dearborn Real Estate Education, →ISBN, page 383:

The unrecorded document clearly granted an easement to the hallway and Watson had the document prior to closing.

2011, Marianne M. Jennings, “Nonpossessory Interests in Real Estate”, in Real Estate Law (South-Western Legal Studies in Business Academic Series; West Legal Studies in Business), 9th edition, Mason, Oh.: South-Western Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 75:

en:legal right to use another person's property

(law, property law) An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).


sublease

subleases (plural)
sub-lease (alternative)

(property law) A lease sublet by a tenant or lessee to a subtenant.


sublease

en-verb

sublease (third-person singular simple present subleases, present participle subleasing, simple past and past participle subleased)

subleases (present singular third-person)
subleasing (participle present)
subleased (participle past)
subleased (past)
sub-lease (alternative)

These had been sub-leased from EMR (and previously East Midlands Trains) for more than a year to cover for Mk 4s undergoing planned maintenance.

2019 November 20, “Fleet News”, in Rail, page 31:

(property law, informal) Synonym of sublet.


subtenant

subtenants (plural)
sub-tenant (alternative)


subtenant

subtenant (third-person singular simple present subtenants, present participle subtenanting, simple past and past participle subtenanted)

subtenants (present singular third-person)
subtenanting (participle present)
subtenanted (participle past)
subtenanted (past)
sub-tenant (alternative)


copyhold

en-noun

copyhold (countable and uncountable, plural copyholds)

[…]this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lēx locī reī sitae.

1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, page 311:

(property law, historical) A former form of tenure in which the title deeds were a copy of the manorial roll.

erfðafestuland

customary land tenure in a manorial estate


subtenancy

subtenancy (countable and uncountable, plural subtenancies)


overage

overage (countable and uncountable, plural overages)

/ˈəʊvəɹɪd͡ʒ/

(property law) Any additional sums payable following the purchase of land, calculated on a prearranged basis, on the occurrence of certain specified events that are deemed to increase the value of that land; usually in the context of the development and further sale of that land.


material fact

(law, property law) A fact that might alter a person's decision to buy a property or change the terms and price a buyer is willing to accept.


resi

(real estate, property law) Clipping of residential.


resi

(real estate, property law) Clipping of residential real estate.


incumbrance

incumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural incumbrances)

(property law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.


subletting

[…] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.

1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:

(property law, real estate) Synonym of sublease.


allodial title

(property law) Ultimate ownership of real property that is not granted out of a superior interest in land and therefore not inherently subject to any encumbrance; almost always held by the state; the title out of which freehold title is granted.


sublessor

sublessors (plural)
sub-lessor (alternative)

The sublessor insisted on being there.

2009 January 18, Joyce Cohen, “Run Away and Join the City”, in New York Times:

(property law) A tenant (or lessee) that grants a sublease; one who sublets.


subletter

subletters (plural)
sublettor (alternative)

(property law, real estate) Synonym of sublessor.


untenantable

en-adj

untenantable (comparative more untenantable, superlative most untenantable)

more untenantable (comparative)
most untenantable (superlative)

(property) Unliveable-in or unuseful in its present state to purchaser, tenant or vendor.


subleaser

subleasers (plural)
sub-leaser (alternative)

(property law, informal) Synonym of sublessor.


sublessee

sublessees (plural)
sub-lessee (alternative)


reverter

(property law) The reversion of ownership of an estate in land to the original grantor pursuant to the occurrence of a condition set forth in the original grant.


vendication

From Latin vendicatio (“claiming”), via French vendication (“claiming”).

1678 June 8, The Minutes of the Westconnaug Purchase, quoted in Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island Historical Society Collections
We do give unto them full Power and Authority to and in our Behalf for the maintaining justifying and defending our just Rights and Property in our aforesaid Purchases above premisd and call to an Account any Person or Persons that are concernd in the aforesaid Purchase of what Monies is due from them to the Company and also to deal with Samuel Reape about a Deed of Sale which he doth obstinately detain in his Hands belonging to the Company: and to all Matters relating to the Propagation and Vendication of our aforesaid Purchases &c

Poſſeſſion thereof remains in the Heir, against whom the Legatar hath not only a personal Action, for payment or delivery of the Legacy but hath alſo a real Action of Vendication, againſt him, and all other havers thereof, for delivery of the ſame.

1693, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, Deduced from Its Originals, and Collated with the Civil, Canon, and Feudal Laws, and with the Customs of Neighbouring Nations ... The Second Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Much Enlarged, Etc, page 498:

Vendication of a plot of ground

1868, Mauritius. Supreme Court, Decisions of the Supreme Court, Vice-Admiralty Court & Bankruptcy Court of Mauritius: Arrets de la Cour Supreme, de la Cour de Vice Admiraute & de la Cour des Faillites de l'Ile Maurice:

(property law, rare) An act of claiming property.


nonfungible

Horses, slaves, and so forth, are non-fungible things, because they differ individually in value and cannot be exchanged indifferently one for another.

1880, Thomas Erskine Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence, 12th edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1916, page 107:

But the claim that love of certain sorts—romantic, maternal, filial—is nonfungible means that this emotion is directed only to the particular individuals who manifest those properties.

2019, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Things: In Touch with the Past, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:

(chiefly property law, finance) Not fungible, not interchangeable.


cotenant

cotenants (plural)
co-tenant (alternative)

(property law) A person who shares a tenancy with another; a co-owner of an interest in property.


underletting

In the marketplace, it is important that tenants of business premises should be able to assign their leases or grant underlettings, in good times and bad.

2006, Susan Bright, Landlord and Tenant Law: Past, Present and Future, page 4:


voluntary waste

en-noun

voluntary waste (usually uncountable, plural voluntary wastes)

(property law) Any structural change made to an estate in land that intentionally or negligently causes harm to the estate or depletes its resources, unless this depletion is a continuation of a pre-existing use.


undertenant

undertenants (plural)
under-tenant (alternative)

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FAT

FAT (countable and uncountable, plural FATs)

full agricultural tenancy
full agricultural tenancy#English

(countable, property law, England and Wales) Initialism of full agricultural tenancy.


public property

public property (countable and uncountable, plural public properties)

(law, property law) Property, assets or information directly owned by or under the control of the state.


private property

private property (countable and uncountable, plural private properties)

All your private property is / Target for your enemy / And your enemy is we

1969, Paul Kantner, “We Can Be Together”, performed by Jefferson Airplane:

(law, property law) Property to which individuals or corporations have certain exclusive property rights, but do not necessarily possess.

энчилӱ јӧӧжӧ

enčilü ǰööžö

(law, property law) Property to which the state or other public organizations do not have exclusive property rights.

yksityisomaisuus

property to which the state does not have rights


devastavit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēvastāvit (“he has wasted”), from dēvastāre, from dēvastō (“I devastate, I lay waste”), from de- + vastāre (from vastō (“I devastate, I lay waste, I ravage”), from vastus (“deserted, wasted”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂st- (“empty; wasted”)).

der

Court of Hustings
Lord Mayor of London
Richard Whittington

Waſt may be committed by ſelling or confuſing the Teſtator's Goods, leaving debts unpaid. By […] not having enough to pay them by ſelling of the Teſtator's Goods at an undervalue if by Covin, but if upon a judgment the Sheriff ſell them at undervalue, this is no Devaſtavit in the Executor.

1702, The Law of Executors and Administrators, being a Common Law Treatise. Shewing, Directions for the Management of their Office and Duty, in the Several Branches of It. …, London: Printed by the assigns of R. and Edw. Atkins Esquires. For J. Walthoe in the Middle Temple Cloysters, and M. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleet-street, →OCLC, page 191:

If an Executor pay an Uſurious Bond, other Creditors may make a Devaſtavit of it, Hob. p. 167. If a Man be bound in an Obligation Uſurious, the Bond is void between the Parties, yea and Strangers ſhall take the advantage of it; and therefore if ſuch an Obligor makes his Executor and die, and the Executor pay the uſurious Bond, other Creditors may ſhew it, and make a Devaſtavit of it, in Winchcomb and the Biſhop of Wincheſter’s Caſe.

[1710?], A Common Law Treatise of Usury, and Usurious Contracts: Wherein is Set forth, the Nature of Usury, and what Contracts are Said Usurious in our Law. …, London: Printed for John Wickins, and are to be sold by Robert Gosling, at the Mitre over against Chancery-Lane-End in Fleet-Street, →OCLC, page 4:

An executor is guilty of a devastavit if he pays legacies before the debts. […] If an administrator pay the debts of the intestate in such order as the law appoints to the value of all the goods with his own money, he may lawfully dispose of the goods as he pleases, and it will not be a devastavit.

1832, Thomas Coventry with Samuel Hughes, An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of Henry III. to the Commencement of the Reign of George III. with Tables of the Titles and Names of Cases. … In Two Volumes, 1st American edition, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: R. H. Small, law bookseller, 15 Minor Street, →OCLC, page 490:

In the case of an executor committing a devastavit, and a decree for payment of the amount, the debt is considered as due from the time of the devastavit, and not from the date of the decree; […]

1832, Edward Vaughan Williams, A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators. … In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Saunders and Benning, law booksellers, (successors to J[oseph] Butterworth and Son,) 43 Fleet-Street, →OCLC, page 1259:

A representative may, as we have seen, be answerable personally to creditors of the deceased, even for acts done to the best of his judgment, or in the conscientious discharge of his duty. Much more is he so for wrongful acts. These acts are known in legal language as devastavits or acts whereby he has "wasted" or squandered the assets.

1861, Charles Francis Trower, The Law of Debtor and Creditor (The Law Library), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., law booksellers and publishers, No. 535 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 260:

He was without authority, as the administrator in chief was without duty to him, for defaults or devastavits during the preceding administration.

1905, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, volume 41, Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., →OCLC, page 128:

(property law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastation.

(property law) In full, writ of devastavit: a writ issued against an executor or administrator claiming compensation for such misapplication of assets.


sublandlord

sublandlords (plural)
sub-landlord (alternative)

Ms. Colp-Haber said that companies that sublease space could protect themselves by negotiating the right to stay in the space with the building’s landlord if the sublandlord should default.

2009 March 4, Alison Gregor, “Commercial Renters Have a New Worry: A Landlord’s Default”, in New York Times:


undertenancy

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underlease

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underlease

en-verb

underlease (third-person singular simple present underleases, present participle underleasing, simple past and past participle underleased)

underleases (present singular third-person)
underleasing (participle present)
underleased (participle past)
underleased (past)

(property law, informal) Synonym of sublet.


feuar

These out-field spots were selected by any feuar at his own choice, amongst the sheep-walks and hills which were always annexed to the Township

1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:

In 1835 he cleared the green by giving his sixty tenants, or feuars, land behind their cottages[.]

1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 4:

(Scotland, property law, historical) One who holds a feu.


rentcharge

en-noun

rentcharge (countable and uncountable, plural rentcharges)

(property law) An annual sum or periodic payment charged on certain freehold properties or payable out of the income of those properties and expressly giving to the rentcharger, who has no reversionary interest in the property, the right of distress for arrears.


tenant at will

(law, real estate, property law) One who holds lands at the will of the owner.


profit à prendre

profit à prendre (plural profits à prendre)

profits à prendre (plural)
profit a prendre (alternative)
profit-à-prendre (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Law French profit à prendre (“profit to be taken”).

lbor

(property law) A nonpossessory interest in land which grants the legal right to enter onto another person's real property (real estate) for the purpose of taking from its soil, mines and minerals, natural produce or flora and fauna.


mines and minerals

Near-synonym: mineral rights

(property law, England and Wales, idiomatic) The legal title to geological resources in the subsurface of a piece of land, usually by reference to being in the same or separate ownership to the surface of that land.


headlease

headleases (plural)
head lease (alternative)

(property law) A lease to a landlord or lessor; commonly from the perspective of a sublease to that lease.


head lease

(property law) Alternative form of headlease.


underlessor

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underleaser

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(property law, informal) Synonym of sublessor.


head tenant

(property law) The tenant of a headlease, who in turn is landlord to subtenants.


superior tenant

en-noun

superior tenant (plural superior tenants)


superior landlord

superior landlord (plural superior landlords)

(property law) The landlord of a headlease, from the perspective of an underlease to that lease.


head landlord

superior landlord
superior landlord#English

(property law, uncommon) Synonym of superior landlord.


subunderlease

(property law) A lease subunderlet by a subtenant to a subundertenant; a third-order lease.


underlandlord

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subsublease

(property law) Synonym of subunderlease.


subundertenant

(property law) A tenant of a subunderlease; someone leasing a piece of property from a tenant who is subleasing from a tenant who is in turn leasing it from a landlord.


subsubtenant

(property law) Synonym of subundertenant.


subunderlessor

(property law) A subtenant that grants a subunderlease; one who subunderlets.


subsublessor

(property law) Synonym of subunderlessor.


subunderlet

en-verb

subunderlet (third-person singular simple present subunderlets, present participle subunderletting, simple past and past participle subunderlet)

subunderlets (present singular third-person)
subunderletting (participle present)
subunderlet (participle past)
subunderlet (past)

(transitive, property law) To grant a subunderlease out of property held under a sublease.


subsublet

subsublet (third-person singular simple present subsublets, present participle subsubletting, simple past and past participle subsublet)

subsublets (present singular third-person)
subsubletting (participle present)
subsublet (participle past)
subsublet (past)


farm business tenancy

en-noun

farm business tenancy (plural farm business tenancies)

Coined by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1995 in the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.

coinage

(property law, England and Wales) An agricultural tenancy agreed on or after 1 September 1995, made under the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.


full agricultural tenancy

en-noun

full agricultural tenancy (countable and uncountable, plural full agricultural tenancies)

(property law, England and Wales) An agricultural tenancy agreed before 1 September 1995, to which the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 applies.


1986 Act tenancy

1986 Act tenancy (plural 1986 Act tenancies)

(property law, England and Wales) Synonym of full agricultural tenancy.


Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy

Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy (plural Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies)

Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies (plural)


sub-subunderlease

(property law) A lease sub-subunderlet by a subundertenant to a sub-subundertenant.


feu duty

feu duty (usually uncountable, plural feu duties)

feu duties (plural)
feuduty (alternative)
feu-duty (alternative)

(Scotland, property law, historical) Money payable by the tenant of a feu to the feudal superior.


title plan

(property law, England and Wales) A plan issued by HM Land Registry that accompanies a title register, showing the extent of the legal title described in that register, and sometimes other interests in land that affect the title.


LPMPA

LP(MP)A (alternative)
LPMPA 1989 (alternative)
LP(MP)A 1989 (alternative)

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(property law, England and Wales) Initialism of Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989.


LP(MP)A

LPA (canonical)
LPMPA (alternative)
LPMPA 1989 (alternative)
LP(MP)A 1989 (alternative)


LPMPA 1989

LPMPA (alternative)
LP(MP)A (alternative)
LP(MP)A 1989 (alternative)


LP(MP)A 1989

LPA 1989 (canonical)
LPMPA (alternative)
LP(MP)A (alternative)
LPMPA 1989 (alternative)


equality money

(UK, property law) Money paid as part of an exchange of real estate to compensate for any difference in value.


marriage value

(UK, property law) The difference in value between a leasehold interest in land and the hypothetical value of its reversionary interest were the leasehold to be determined, which typically increases as the leasehold draws towards its end; frequently considered the market value chargeable to the tenant for a long extension of the leasehold, or for the purchase of the reversionary interest.


ingress, egress, and regress

It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage—not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air—but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad—tantum valet, my father would say, quantum sonat.

1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

(property law, of a property or land) The right to enter, leave, and reenter.


rent review

(property law) A reevaluation and adjustment of the rent to be paid under a lease.


servient estate

servient estate (plural servient estates)

(property law) A parcel of land that is subject to an easement.


vacation time

vacation time (countable and uncountable, plural vacation times)

(dated, obsolete, property law) A time period when land or property is vacant or out of commission.


chose in action

chose in action (plural choses in action)

(property law) property, especially intangible ones, that can only be claimed or enforced by legal action


chose in possession

chose in possession (plural choses in possession)

(property law) property that is capable to be possessed


convertible land

convertible land (countable and uncountable, plural convertible lands)

(real estate, property law) A designated area within a condominium development that is part of the common elements but holds the potential to be developed into additional units or limited common elements in the future.


common elements

common elements pl (normally plural, singular common element)

(real estate, property law) An area or amenity that is collectively owned and shared by all the residents.