tenant at will

Even a tenant at will, who pays the full value of the land, is not altogether dependent upon the landlord.

In the ancient state of Europe, the occupiers of land were all tenants at will.

The Wares' copyhold was in a parcel also occupied by some tenants at will.

Happens every half hour, what with him being currently (and temporarily, I hope) the Tenant at Will of the village pub.

They were tenants at will underneath the tacksman and wadsetters, but practically their tenure was secure enough.

For another ejectment case in which it was held that a tenant at will is entitled to a notice to quit, see Doe dem.

If a tenant at will is given notice to quit the premises, and refuses to do so, the landlord then begins eviction proceedings.

Tenants at will.

These were originally tenants at will and in a state of semi-serfdom but they became in course of time the copyhold tenants of the later law.

If, for instance, X enters into Y's property with Y's consent, X becomes a tenant at will.

Under the Aboriginal People's Act, the Orang Asli were permitted to live on designated land as tenants at will, but they did not possess land rights.

Also notes relating to a proposal by Mr Wooden, tenant at will of the George Inn in Grantham, to take a lease of the premises.

He quotes Dillon as calling municipalities "mere tenants at will of their respective state legislatures" which could be "eliminated by the legislature with a stroke of the pen".

Even such of them as were not in a state of villanage were tenants at will, who paid a rent in no respect equivalent to the subsistence which the land afforded them.

Those who were not bondmen were tenants at will, and though the rent which they paid was often nominally little more than a quit-rent, it really amounted to the whole produce of the land.

The estate of the tenant from year to year is included in the term of years absolute; and the interests of a tenant at will and at sufferance are still recognized.

Nevertheless, the Earl of Surrey persuaded the king to allow him possession of his lands, which he held from the king as a tenant at will for the rest of his life.

For this purpose the owner will include any person in occupation other than as a tenant from year to year or for any less term or as tenant at will (London Building Act 1930, s5).

A tenant at will, who possesses land sufficient to maintain his family for little more than a quit-rent, is as dependent upon the proprietor as any servant or retainer whatever and must obey him with as little reserve.

Tenancy at Will/Licensee If despite the best efforts of both parties it is not possible to agree a new lease by the expiry of the old one the Landlord could treat the Tenant as a Tenant at will or a licensee.

As a tenant at will, Mr. Outdoors can be removed only by his voluntary departure or by the original tenant, who has become the "landlord" for Mr. Outdoors, giving Mr. Outdoors a 30-day written notice of termination of tenancy.

During the recent war whenever the enemy had a temporary advantage with his granados did this traitor to his kind not seize that moment to discharge his piece against the empire of which he is a tenant at will while he trembled for the security of his four per cents?

William was a small farmer occupying a messuage and yardland as a copyholder in inheritance, together with half an acre of meadow and another piece of the 'Farme Landes' of unstated dimensions, as a tenant at will, for a total rent of 11s.

The tenants of the clergy were, like those of the great barons, almost all tenants at will, entirely dependent upon their immediate lords, and therefore liable to be called out at pleasure in order to fight in any quarrel in which the clergy might think proper to engage them.

There are two versions, Moola geni (protected tenant with certain rights; similar to Bhoomidar of U.P) being the hereditary one and Chala geni (tenant at will; ex Sirdars and Asamis of U.P) given on a contract lasting 4-5 years.