Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Tenancy Division deals with breaches of leases, excessive rent increases, termination of the rental agreement, and the return of rental bonds. An order can be made up to $20,000 with respect to a rental bond or $10,000 for other matters. The Home Building Division deals with matters under The Home Building Act 1989 (NSW). The tribunal has ...
The former Tribunal was established under the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 (NSW) as the primary dispute resolution body for residential tenancies in New South Wales. . Following a review of other tribunals under the portfolio of the Department of Fair Trading of New South Wales (such as the Commercial Tribunal, Consumer Claims Tribunal, Building Disputes Tribunal and the Motor Vehicle Repair ...
At the same time, severe weather events caused by climate-change have become more frequent, affecting property values. [53] In the developing world, catastrophes are impacting greater numbers of people due to urbanization, crowding, and weak tenure and legal systems. Colonial land-tenure systems have led to issues in post-colonial societies. [54]
Torrens title is a land registration and land transfer system in which a state creates and maintains a register of land holdings, which serves as the conclusive evidence (termed "indefeasibility") of title of the person recorded on the register as the proprietor (owner), and of all other interests recorded on the register.
During the American Colonial Period, tenant farmers complained about the sharecropping system, as well as by the dramatic increase in population which added economic pressure to the tenant farmers' families. [3] As a result, an agrarian reform program was initiated by the Commonwealth. However, success of the program was hampered by ongoing ...
Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.
A sale agreement on real estate is legally binding even without registration in the land register, the only requirement being certification of the agreement by a notary. Registration is required, however, in order for the new owner to sell or otherwise transfer the property, or enter a mortgage.
In common law and statutory law, a life estate (or life tenancy) is the ownership of immovable property for the duration of a person's life. In legal terms, it is an estate in real property that ends at death, when the property rights may revert to the original owner or to another person. The owner of a life estate is called a "life tenant".