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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 .
A reversion in property law is a future interest that is retained by the grantor after the conveyance of an estate of a lesser quantum than he has (such as the owner of a fee simple granting a life estate or a leasehold estate).
Leasehold: An estate of limited term, as set out in a contract, called a lease, between the party granted the leasehold, called the lessee, and another party, called the lessor, having a longer estate in the property. For example, an apartment-dweller with a one-year lease has a leasehold estate in her apartment.
Leasehold estates: rights of possession and use but not ownership. The lessor (owner/landlord) gives this right to the lessee . 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
In Roman law, ground rent (solarium) was an annual rent payable by the lessee of a superficies (a piece of land), or perpetual lease of building land. [5] In early Norman England, tenants could lease their title to land so that the land-owning lords did not have any power over the sub-tenant to collect taxes.
Leasehold reforms proposed by the Government have been branded an “eviscerated shell of a bill” that fails to deliver on Conservative election promises.
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.
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