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A giving up, a total desertion, an absolute relinquishment.
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The leaving behind of property; an indifference as to the fate of a chattel.
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A statement of the conveyances and charges appearing of record and affecting the title to real property.
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A clause in a contract that states that if a payment is missed, or some other default occurs (such as the debtor becoming insolvent), then the contract is fully due immediately.
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The possession of land, without legal title, for a period of time sufficient to become recognized as legal owner.
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An opening through which light has flowed uninterrupted for twenty years and which can, in some circumstances, support a claim for nuisance if blocked.
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The informed and objective inspection and estimation of a thing's worth.
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Something that, although detached, stands as part of another thing.
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An improvement put upon a property which enhances its value more than mere replacement, maintenance, or repairs.
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Residential premises where both shelter and food are provided.
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A property owner's invitation, sometimes at large, sometimes to a select group, for bids to complete a particular project.
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Mexican real estate law that requires that any action challenging the title of real property situated in Mexico must be litigated in Mexico and exclusively governed by Mexican law.
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Latin: let him beware. A formal warning.
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A registration or/of a notice or warning that litigation is ongoing as to ownership of a particular piece of land or other real property.
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A maxim of the law to the effect that any person, individual or corporate, that wishes to ask or petition a court for judicial action, must be in a position free of fraud or other unfair conduct.
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Those areas of multi-owner real property which are for the exclusive use of all individual owners.
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Judge-declared law. Law which exists and applies to a group on the basis of customs and legal precedents developed over hundreds of years in Britain.
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Property owned by two or more persons at the same time.
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A unit or defined portion of ownership in real property, similar to an apartment.
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An implied eviction where the landlord's act or omission justifies the immediate departure of the tenant.
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An agreement between persons which obliges each party to do or not to do a certain thing.
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That body of law which regulates the formation and enforcement of contracts.
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A generic legal term that refers to various forms of ownership over one asset by more than one person.
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A written document in which signatories either commit themselves to do a certain thing, to not do a certain thing or in which they agree on a certain set of facts.
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Latin: whose is the soil, his it is even to the skies and to the depths below.
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Latin: for whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to heaven and down to hell.
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A public hall devoted to dancing and for which admission is not based on personal selection or invitation.
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A binding promise to do something or certifying a transaction which adheres to required legal rituals such as a seal or form of signature.
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The right to use lethal force to prevent a felony committed within a person's home.
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Land held by a noble under the English feudal system, in absolute ownership.
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(USA) Any area validly set apart for the use of the Indians under the superintendence of the Government.
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The right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant which is in the premises being rented, as collateral against a tenant that has not paid the rent or has otherwise defaulted on the lease, such as wanton disrepair or destruction of the premises.
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A common law remedy available to landlords to hold the tenant's belongings while the tenant is behind on rent but continues to occupy the premises.
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A pet; dogs, cats or other tame animals or birds and which serve some purpose for its owner or others.
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Used when referring to easements to specify that property (i.e. tenement) or piece of land that benefits from, or has the advantage of, an easement.
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Latin: the property rights of a tenant; exclusive right to use a thing
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Latin: qualified ownership of a land: not having possession or use of property but retaining ownership.
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A house which has separate but complete facilities to accommodate two families as either adjacent units or one on top of the other.
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A ancient now disused claim to remove an individual from poccupying another's real property, based on tresspass.
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USA: The legal power to expropriate private land for the sake of public necessity.
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Civil law: a long-term lease of land or buildings; 99 years or such similar long term, or even in perpetuity.
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Limited rights granted to a tenant of land to certain product of the land, mostly wood.
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Some permanent act by landlord, or by person or thing under his control, which deprives a tenant of enjoyment of the rented premises.
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The forced purchase of land by a public authority from a private owner.
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The termination of legal rights.
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The hypothetical most probable price that could be obtained for a property by average, informed purchasers.
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A chattel which has become real property by having been affixed thereto.
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Waters which escape from a watercourse in great volume and flow over adjoining lands in no regular channel.
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The sale of real property secured by a mortgage, in order to satisfy an outstanding loan.
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A form of limited land ownership in England pre-Conquest (1066) which vested to all sons equally.
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A person who pledges payment or performance of a contract of another, but separately, as part of an independently contract with the obligee of the original contract.
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A right in ancient common law of a land lord, upon the death of his tenant, to pick any beast belonging to the estate of the deceased tenant.
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A charge on property upon which an unpaid creditor may enforce payment of the debt.
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Land and fixtures thereto, civil law term.
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An intangible right which is attached to property and which is inheritable.
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(USA) Land within an Indian reservation and all such other dependent Indian territories, and all land acquired by Indians in which tribal and federal laws normally apply and state laws do not.
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A right of exclusive occupancy in land by Indians.
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When two or more persons are equally owners of some property.
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Latin: the right to stray and remain.
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A land or building owner who has leased the land, the building or a part of the land or building, to another person.
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A special kind of contract between a property owner and a person wanting temporary enjoyment and exclusive use of the property, in exchange for rent paid to the property owner.
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Real property held under a lease.
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The tenant, the person to whom is granted exclusive possession of a thing under the terms of a lease.
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The landlord; a person who grants a lease, usually the owner of the thing being leased.
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A conflict of law rule that selects the applicable law based on the venue or location of something.
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A special permission to do something on, or with, somebody else’s property which, were it not for the license, could be legally prevented or give rise to legal action in tort or trespass.
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Latin: a dispute or matter which is the subject of ongoing or pending litigation.
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The absorption of one corporation by another.
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An interest given on a piece of land, in writing, to guarantee the payment of a debt or the execution of some action.
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The person who borrows money secured by conceding a mortgage against his interest in real property.
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Excessive or unlawful use of one’s property to the extent of unreasonable annoyance or inconvenience to a neighbor or to the public.
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Liability of a person who controls land or building(s) in regards to damages caused to others who enter thereon.
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An area of land set aside for passive common use, where certain types of activities are restricted, to permit individuals to escape the intensity of urban life.
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A partition wall; a dividing wall which separates two adjoining real properties.
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Water which seeps or filters through the ground without any definite channel and not part of the flow of any waterway (eg. rain water).
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French: as to the whole and not just a part.
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A subdivision map prepared for approval by a governmental authority.
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The liability of an occupier of real property towards injury to others.
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A servitude which resembles an easement and which allows the holder to enter the land of another and to take some natural produce such as mineral deposits, fish or game, timber, crops or pasture.
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A comprehensive collection of legal rights over a thing.
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A 1290 English statute that held that notwithstanding the subdivision (subinfeudation) of a feeholding; the new tenant owed feudal rights and obligations not to the seller but to the Land Lord.
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A formal process of the exercise of eminent domain in which the government takes possession before the adjudication of compensation.
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Latin: whatever is planted in the ground, belongs to the ground.
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A landlord's obligation to provide the tenant with reasonable privacy and freedom from any interference with the tenant's exclusive use and enjoyment of the rented premises.
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Same as real property; land and rights attached to land.
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A legal obligation associated with real property.
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A property interest in land.
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Latin: that part of a lease which sets out the amount of rent and when it is payable.
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Reverting title to property.
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Money or other consideration paid by a tenant to a landlord in exchange for the exclusive use and enjoyment of land, a building or a part of a building.
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A legal action taken to reclaim goods which have been distrained.
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The lease of residential premises for residential purposes.
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A contract in which a party agrees to be restricted in some regards as to future conduct.
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A loan made by the homeowner on which the home stands as collateral, and which payment is not required until the homeowner sells, moves out or dies, and the loan amount and interest, is then paid out of the proceeds of sale.
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Any interest, vested or contingent, the enjoyment of which is postponed.
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A watercourse which is of capacity to be navigated.
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Rented residential premises where an individual shares a kitchen and bathroom with others.
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Money paid to another to be held as security for the occurrence of a specified event.
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The legal possession of property; historically, possession under claim of freehold.
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A 1604 English case that established the right of a home-owner to defend his premises against intrusion ("every man's house is his castle") yields to those seeking to enter with lawful authority such as to make an arrest.
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The land which suffers or has the burden of an easement.
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From Roman law and now a feature of civil law; equivalent to the common law's easement: access rights over, under or on the property of another.
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Intentionally casting aspersion on someones property including real property, a business or goods (the latter might also be called slander of goods).
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A fence built not to any beneficial purpose but, rather, to annoy a neighbor.
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A statute that set a minimum standard for enforceable contracts, usually requiring at a minimum something in writing or the actual exchange of reciprocal obligations, at least in part.
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A formal process for the exercise of eminent domain in which a price is adjudicated and then the property bought by the government.
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A watercourse having banks and channel through which waters flow, at least periodically.
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A declaration of rights as regards waterways for the interim regulation of those rights pending a final determination of those rights either by contract or judicially.
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The process whereby, under the feudal system of tenure, a person receiving a grant of land from a lord, could himself become a landlord by subdividing and subletting that land to others.
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The subsequent lease of property that is itself leased; with the primary tenant retaining an interest in the original lease.
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Waters falling on the land by precipitation or rising from springs.
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Lands which, from excessive rainfall or other causes, retain at some seasons of the year excessive water which damages and renders them unfit for use.
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A contract by which the owner of real property (the landlord), grants exclusive possession of that real property to another person (tenant), in exchange for the tenant's periodic payment of some sum of money (rent).
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A form of common law co-ownership where, when real property was transferred to a husband and a wife, the property could not be seized or sold unless both spouses agreed or by ending the marriage.
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A person to whom a landlord grants temporary and exclusive use of land or a part of a building, usually in exchange for rent.
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Share a specified proportion of ownership rights in real property and upon the death of a tenant in common, that share is transferred to the estate of the deceased tenant.
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Property that could be subject to easements.
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Latin: to be held. In law, that part of a contract in which an interest in real property is created that sets out the extent or limitations of that interest.
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A contractual term requiring performance within a specified time.
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The right or proof of ownership.
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A land registration system invented by Robert Torrens and in which the government is the keeper of the master record of all land and their owners.
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Delivery from one person to another of property.
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A person who receives property being transferred.
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The person from whom title or ownership to property moves.
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Unlawful interference with another’s person, property or rights.
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Latin: three necessities owed all common law landowners to the kingdom.
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The rights to the product of another's property.
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A stream usually flowing in a particular direction, in a definite channel, having a bed or banks, though it need not flow continually.
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Words in a conveyance or in a will which set the duration of an estate.
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