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- Adverse PossessionThis is the process which results in the acquisition of legal title of land, without actually paying for...
- Alex Copson has qualified To celebrate Alex Copson finishing his Training Contract with us and joining the Commercial Property team as a newly qualified solicitor in March 2024, we have asked him some deep and meaningful questions to get an insight into what makes Alex...
- Break ClauseThis is a clause which allows a tenant to end a lease at specific times during the period of the...
- Buying Your First Home Buying a home for the first time can be an exciting and nerve-wracking experience. I recently bought my first property and can totally appreciate the feeling. As a first-time buyer it is likely that you are not familiar with the conveyancing process, but...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The impact Climate Change can have on your move As the purchase of a home is most likely going to be the largest and most valuable transaction we will make in our lifetime, buyers are increasingly looking to solicitors to help safeguard that investment. In April 2023 The Law Society of England...
- 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...