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A freehold, in common law jurisdictions or Commonwealth countries such as England and Wales, Australia, [1] Canada, Ireland, India and twenty states in the United States, is the common mode of ownership of real property, or land, [a] and all immovable structures attached to such land.
A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. [1] Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a leasehold estate is typically considered personal property .
There are four categories of leasehold estates: estate for years (a term of year absolute or tenancy for years)—lease of any length with specific begin and end date; periodic estate (periodic tenancy)—automatically renewing lease (month to month, week to week) estate at will (tenancy at will)—leasehold for no fixed time or period. It ...
As a legal term, ground rent specifically refers to regular payments made by a holder of a leasehold property to the freeholder or a superior leaseholder, as required under a lease. In this sense, a ground rent is created when a freehold piece of land is sold on a long lease or leases. [1] The ground rent provides an income for the landowner. [2]
Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England.The name for this type of land tenure is derived from the act of giving a copy of the relevant title deed that is recorded in the manorial court roll to the tenant, rather than the actual land deed itself.
The fee simple estate is also called "estate in fee simple" or "fee-simple title", or sometimes simply "freehold" in England and Wales. From the start of the Norman period, when feudalism was introduced to England, the tenant or "holder" of a fief could not alienate (sell) it from the possession of his overlord.
A lease, in fact being a bargain and sale upon some pecuniary consideration for one year or some other nominal term, is made by the bargainor of a whole freehold (with no fetter on alienation) to a lessee who is in fact the bargainee (buyer), "by the force of the Statute made for transferring Uses into possession". This, without any enrolment ...
Freehold ("More permanent") conveyances of real estate are covered by real estate contracts, including conveying fee simple title, life estates, remainder estates, and freehold easements. Real estate contracts are typically bilateral contracts (i.e., agreed to by two parties) and should have the legal requirements specified by contract law in ...