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DEMISE , an Anglo-See also:

French legal See also:term (from the Fr. demettre, See also:Lat. dimittere, to send away) for a See also:transfer of an See also:estate, especially by See also:lease. The word has an operative effect in a lease implying a See also:covenant for " quiet enjoyment " (see LANDLORD AND See also:TENANT). The phrase " demise of the See also:crown " is used in See also:English See also:law to signify the immediate transfer of the See also:sovereignty, with all its attributes and prerogatives, to the successor without any See also:interregnum in accordance with the See also:maxim " the See also:king never See also:dies." At See also:common law the See also:death of the See also:sovereign eo facto dissolved See also:parliament, but this was abolished by the See also:Representation of the See also:People See also:Act 1867, §51. Similarly the common law See also:doctrine that all offices held under the crown determined at its demise has been negatived by the Demise of the Crown Act 1901. " Demise" is thus often used loosely for death or decease.

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