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(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
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(law) A means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation by occupying the property in a manner that has under common law the requirements of being actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, under cover of claim or right, and continuous for a certain number of years.
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The right to build over an existing property.
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(law) A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
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(historical) One of the parties to the Assiento contract.
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(law) A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
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(UK, law) The principle that there is no unowned property, and that if there is no other owner then property vests in the Crown.
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(UK, law, obsolete) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
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A deed (legal contract).
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One who disreputably mines land legitimately claimed by another.
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Land granted by an authority for some specific purpose, particularly:
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(law) Any of various forms of ownership of property by more than one person at a time.
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(law) An equal share of an inheritance.
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(law) Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.
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In legal possession of a deed.
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(law) An estate in land that may be divested from its current owner upon the occurrence of an event set forth by the grantor in the grant.
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The ownership of a thing.
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(law) An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
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Funds set apart for repairs in the accounts of the Inner Temple.
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(law, US) The right of a government over the private property within its jurisdiction. Usually invoked to compel land owners to sell their property in preparation for a major construction project such as a freeway.
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(law) A right to enjoyment of property with a given stipulation that the property will be improved or maintained in an agreed upon manner; long leasehold
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(law, common law) The instrument or deed by which one obtains such property or estate.
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(land legal, England & Wales, historical) the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold estate
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(law) One's right to have or control an asset.
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(law, UK, obsolete) The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.
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(law) The nature and extent of a person's interest in, or ownership of, land.
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(law) An interest in land that is or may become possessory of a physical area of land, almost always with a set geographic location; real estate; real property.
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(archaic, law, historical) An allowance provided from an estate for a person's support; an allowance of wood for repairs, firewood and fencing.
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(law) A third-party interest in an estate in land created by the conditions of a grant wherein the grantor gives the land to a second party, but with said land going to a third party upon the occurrence of a condition; an interest created subject to a fee simple subject to executory interest.
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(law) The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.
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(law) A defeasible fee created with language reserving the right of the grantor to reclaim ownership of the land upon the occurrence of a specified condition (e.g. "if X event occurs, grantor reserves the right to reenter and retake"); upon occurrence of the condition, the grantor may decide to retake ownership or not.
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(law) An estate in land in common law wherein the land is inherited, but cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.
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Alternative spelling of fee simple [(law) The private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.]
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Alternative form of feoffer [(law) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.]
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Partial ownership of a property, such as real estate or a chartered airplane, such that each partial owner has use of the property for only a portion of the time.
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A business partnership in which each partner is liable for the firm's debts.
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(taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
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(law) A fictitious or hypothetical estate in land, commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
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(law, dated) The part of a deed that formally defines the extent of ownership or tenancy granted.
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(law) The holder of a hypothec, or pledge
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Subject to an indenture.
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(law) A form of ownership by two or more individuals in which the share in the asset belonging to any of the owners passes automatically to the other owners upon death, without requiring probate.
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(law) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
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(dated) A person who does not own land.
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A formal statement that a public event is taking place on land originally inhabited by indigenous peoples.
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(US) A grant of land by the US government to encourage the development of western states, especially land transportation and practical higher education.
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(US, Canada) An exclusive grant of land made by a sovereign entity with respect to a particular tract of land.
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A public record of land ownership and related information.
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Alternative form of land-take. [An acquisition or taking of land for a particular purpose.]
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An acquisition or taking of land for a particular purpose.
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(historical) A charter or deed by which land is granted.
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Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.
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The land belonging to a landowner; a smallholding.
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(historical) A certificate entitling the holder to land ownership in Texas.
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The document containing such a contract or deed.
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(law) One who has right of possession of goods but not right of property; the registered owner.
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(law) Used in instances of title of property (such as a vehicle) to refer to the person who has right of property, as opposed to the party that merely has right of possession. The party that only has right of possession is referred to as a registered owner, and in the event the registered owner fails to pay off the lien according to the agreed-to terms, the lienholder has the right to invoke repossession of the property (vehicle).
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(law) Having right of property as a lienholder.
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(law) An estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.
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(law) An estate in land which is given by a grantor to a party only for the duration of the life of a third party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that third party.
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(Scotland, law) The right to receive for life the benefits of a property or other asset, without the right to dispose of it.
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(law) A form of partnership including limited partners whose potential liability is limited to their investment.
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(US) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
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(Australia) listed property trust
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(law) property that descends with a title
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One who holds possession by mortmain.
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A person to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders their interest.
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(property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
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(law) Holding a particular estate.
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(law) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
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(law) Movable goods or property, as distinguished from freehold or real property, especially in land.
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(Scotland) The proprietor of a small portion of a larger piece of land; a laird of a small estate
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Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
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A form of land tenure in which a petitioner receives a property for a specific amount of time without any change of ownership.
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(law, plural only) The subject of a conveyance or deed
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(property law) A nonpossessory interest in land which grants the legal right to enter onto another person's real property (real estate) for the purpose of taking from its soil, mines and minerals, natural produce or flora and fauna.
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Owning property, especially land or real estate that yields an income.
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(Britain) Real estate; the business of selling houses.
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(law) the area of law concerned with the ownership and conveyance of property rights and title.
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(law) The exclusive rights pertaining to the ownership and possession of a given piece of property.
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(Australia, South Africa, business) Proprietary Limited, a type of company that has one or more shareholders and in which the number of shareholders is limited.
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A public office which acts as a trustee, usually when a sum is required to be deposited as security by legislation, when courts remove another trustee, or for estates where either no executor is named by will or the testator elects wishes to appoint one.
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(law) An estate which has an annexed qualification; a base fee.
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(law) The right that a bailee has in the chattel transferred to him by the bailment.
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(law) A writ for land trespass.
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(US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on.
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Real estate; a piece of real property; land.
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A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
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(law) Where a grantor has created a fee simple subject to condition subsequent, and the condition of the grant has come to pass, the right of the grantor to physically reclaim ownership of the land.
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(law) All of the rights a party has e.g. over a property.
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The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
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A document signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public land.
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Alternative form of seisin [(law, historical) An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession; dates from feudal times but is still used in technical discussions of real property law today.]
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(law) The sole ownership of property by someone.
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(law, colloquial) adverse possession
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(Australia, Singapore, British Columbia) (law) A form of title over parts of real property, originally designed to facilitate ownership and mortgage of separate parts of a building, often on multiple levels. Usually some common property is the responsibility of all strata title holders via an owner's corporation.
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(UK, slang, transitive) To lend.
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(law) The recipient of a subgrant.
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a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner.
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Capable of being leased; held by tenants.
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(law) The clause in a deed wherein the tenure of the land is defined and limited.
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(Scotland, law) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
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Certain days on which rent is paid.
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(law) An inventory (book or roll) in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, etc.; a terrar.
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(historical, transitive) To legally bind (a tenant) to the use of one's own property as an owner.
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(transitive) To own or lease (a property) by time-sharing.
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(property law, England & Wales) A plan issued by HM Land Registry that accompanies a title register, showing the extent of the legal title described in that register, and sometimes other interests in land that affect the title.
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(law) A legal right to a property; holding a title.
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Title to real estate provided by a government register (as opposed to the old common law system of deeds or chain of title).
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(UK) An area of land used by a number of businesses for commercial and industrial purposes.
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(US, law) A legal action intended to remedy unlawful detainer by restoring possession of property to its owner.
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(law) A form of equitable ownership peculiar to English law, by which one person enjoys the profits of lands, etc. whose legal title is vested in another in trust.
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(law) The condition or state of possessing a usufruct.
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(law) A person who holds property, or the use of assets, by usufruct; a fructuary.
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