Property

  • Adverse Possession

    This is the process which results in the acquisition of legal title of land, without actually paying for...

  • Break Clause

    This is a clause which allows a tenant to end a lease at specific times during the period of the...

  • Chattel

    This refers to any property except freehold...

  • Common Hold

    A form of freehold land ownership, as an alternative to long leasehold...

  • Dilapidations

    An assesment of a tenant's liabilities under repairing covenants in a...

  • Easement

    An 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...

  • Encumbrance

    An obligation affecting a property, generally in a negative...

  • Equity

    In property terms, normally used to describe the difference between the outstanding mortgage and the value of a...

  • Eviction

    Removing a tenant from their rented...

  • Fixture

    This refers to a permanently fixed piece of furniture or equipment on a...

  • Freehold

    When one has absolute title on a...

  • Ground Rent

    Money that needs to be paid under...

  • Habitable

    Property which is suitable and fit for a person to live...

  • Habitual residence

    The place of a person’s home or...

  • Her Majesty's Land Registry

    Government Department that holds information regarding property ownership...

  • Holdover Tenancy

    A 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 Tenants

    Where people jointly own assets or property. The ownership passes to the survivor on the death of the other...

  • Land Registry

    A body that maintains records of who owns property and what conditions relate to the...

  • Landlord

    Property owner who rents it out to a...

  • Lease

    The letting of land for a prescribed...

  • Leasehold

    Where property is owned for a limited...

  • Loss of Use

    This is where a property cannot be used in the normal way for some...

  • Mesne Profits

    Sum of money claimed by the owner of property against someone not legally entitled to be in...
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