[Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Search] [Feedback]
	Northern Irish Legislation
You are here:  BAILII >> Databases >> Northern Irish Legislation >> LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1887

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT 1887 - SECT 34

Definitions.

34. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires

The expression "ejectment" means any action for the recovery of the possession
of land in the High Court or in the Civil Bill Court:

The expression "judgment" as respects ejectment means decree of a civil bill
court or a judgment of the High Court:

The expression "writ of possession" includes a decree for possession:

The expression "incumbrance" means any legal or equitable mortgage fee, or for
any less estate, and also any money secured by a trust, and also any legacy,
portion, lien, or other charge, whereby a gross sum of money is secured to be
paid on an event or at a time certain, and also any annual or periodical
charge which, by the instrument creating the same, or any other instrument, is
made purchaseable on payment of a gross sum of money, and every other charge
on land which is deemed an incumbrance in a court of equity, and which a court
would discharge by a sale of the land charged, or by the appointment of a
receiver over the same:

The word "landlord" shall, for the purposes of sales to tenants under the Land
Law (Ireland) Acts, include any person entitled to an estate as a trustee for
sale, and any limited owner, as defined by section thirty-three of the
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870:

The expression "tithe rentcharge" includes any annual sum payable to the Land
Commission under the thirty-second section of the Irish Church Act, 1869, as
amended by any Act or Acts:

Definitions rep. by SLR (NI) 1954

Save in Part Two of this Act, the expression "holding" does not include any
holding which is not agricultural or pastoral or partly agricultural and
partly pastoral in its character:

The expression "prescribed," when used with reference to proceedings before
the Land Commission, means prescribed by rules made under the
Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881; when used with reference to [other proceedings,
means prescribed by rules of court made under section 55 of the Judicature
(Northern Ireland) Act 1978 or county court rules as the case may be]:

The definitions contained or incorporated in the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881,
and the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877, shall apply to
this Act:

The expression "the Land Law (Ireland) Acts" includes the
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881,
Part II of the Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883, the
Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, and any Act amending them.

© 1887 Crown Copyright

BAILII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback
URL: http://www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act/lla1887137/s34.html