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(law, real estate) An epitome of the evidences of ownership; the condensed history of title to a particular parcel of real estate, with encumbrances.
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(law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
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(Britain, law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
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(law) Legal ownership of a piece of real property obtained by a party after that party has already purported to sell a falsely claimed present interest in the property to another.
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(law) An amount set by a court to be awarded to a prevailing party based on the reasonable fee that their attorney should have charged, based on the length and complexity of the case.
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A binding agreement, a covenant.
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(Scotland, law) A creditor whose debt is secured over several or the whole subjects belonging to the debtor, e.g. over two or more heritable estates.
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(law) A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
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Alternative spelling of cedent [The person who cedes a personal obligation to another.]
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(law) In the law of real property, a series of documents recorded in the appropriate government repository which establish the passage of a parcel of property from owner to owner, ideally back to the first owner to reduce the property to private ownership.
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A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
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(religion, historical) The statement, in Scottish constitutional law, of the right of the church to spiritual independence and liberty from the interference of the civil courts in her spiritual functions, adopted by an immense majority of the General Assembly in 1842.
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(historical, Australia, Western US) The act of one who jumps a claim.
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Obsolete spelling of claim [A demand of ownership made for something.]
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A person from whom something is claimed.
v
Obsolete form of claim. [To demand ownership of.]
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Abbreviation of claim. [A demand of ownership made for something.]
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Alternative form of cloud on title [(property law) An encumbrance or claim on a title (ownership) to real property sufficient to interfere with title transfer until the problem has been resolved.]
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(property law) An encumbrance or claim on a title (ownership) to real property sufficient to interfere with title transfer until the problem has been resolved.
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A joint mortgagee; one who is responsible for a mortgage together with another person.
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one who holds a concession or a right granted (for example, by the government) to conduct a certain business
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The legal and moral duties of protection owed to a purchaser of goods or services by the supplier.
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To betroth; to affiance.
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(construction) The party to a construction contract who is not the contractor; frequently the owner.
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(law) The drawing of deeds etc. concerning transfer of property, and the legal execution of such transfers.
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(law) In the law of real property, a guarantee made by the seller of a parcel of land to the buyer of that parcel regarding the legal status of the title.
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The party who makes a covenant.
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(law) A legal instrument that is executed under seal or before witnesses.
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(law, England & Wales) A deed executed by the trustees of a trust appointing sums or property out of the trust to one or more beneficiaries.
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(law, Scotland) A deed executed by trustees under a trust-deed assuming a new trustee or settlement.
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(law) A deed relating only to one party, distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the paper cut evenly, or "polled", rather than being indented.
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(law, Scotland) A donee of the crown; one to whom, upon certain conditions, escheated property is made over.
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Obsolete spelling of indenture [(law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).]
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(law) In the law of real property, a set of six traditional covenants of title made by the seller of a parcel of land to the buyer of that parcel.
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One entrusted in a fiduciary matter.
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(law) In common law, escrow applied to the deposits only of instruments for conveyance of land, but it now applies to all instruments so deposited.
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(UK, law) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
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(law) A legal doctrine under which a first party who purports to sell real property that the first party does not actually own to a second party must actually convey that property to the second party if the first party later acquires title to that property.
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(law) A person who, without legal authority, assumes control of a deceased person's property as if they were executor.
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(law) A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
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(law) A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor.
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(law, historical) A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing.
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The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
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(Canada, law, finance) A trust that protects the assets of a disabled person (typically an inheritance) and gives the trustee absolute discretion in how to use those assets to assist the beneficiary.
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(law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
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Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
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(law) To bind a person under such a contract.
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A person who is indentured (bound under a contract).
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A person who is indentured (bound under a contract).
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(law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
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(law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
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(historical, Australia, Western US) To enter upon and take possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation.
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To say that something belongs to oneself.
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(law) One who receives a legacy.
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(law) A writ of execution at common law.
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(law) The writ by which property is obtained.
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(law) One who, not being an interested party, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
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Obsolete form of muniment. [(chiefly law) A deed, or other official document kept as proof of ownership or rights or privileges; an archived document.]
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(chiefly law) A deed, or other official document kept as proof of ownership or rights or privileges; an archived document.
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The right to name a piece of property, either tangible property or an event, usually granted in exchange for financial considerations.
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(law, real estate) A claim to the title of a property, which is superior and stronger in comparison to all other claims.
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(countable, law, real estate) A legal agreement or promise regarding a piece of real estate, which binds the party who makes the covenant but which does not pass from one owner to another when the land is conveyed.
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(usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
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(law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
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(law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
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(law) A document by which a person (the grantor) disclaims any interest the grantor might have in a piece of real property, and passes that claim to another person (the grantee).
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(law) A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another.
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(law, real estate) A legal agreement or promise regarding a piece of real estate, which passes from one owner to another when the land is conveyed and which is said to run with the land.
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(law) A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.
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(law) An agreement between parties limiting or restricting the use of land owned by one of the parties.
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(law) A trust that is implied in law, under which property entrusted to one party is not to be used for the benefit of that party, but for that party to use for the benefit of a third party.
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(historical) A set of laws in Ancient Greece that cancelled existing debts, ended debt-related slavery, and returned confiscated serf property.
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(Australia, historical) A person who is entitled to choose a tract of Crown land to purchase.
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(law) A deed of title to real property by which the grantor warrants that he is not personally responsible for any title defects, but making no warranties or representations as to the quality of the title in other respects.
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Alternative form of sublicense [(law) to grant a sublicense]
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(law) A licensee that grants a sublicense to another.
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(law) The party on whose behalf another party (the subrogee) acts in a subrogation.
v
To ask for the writ delivering a freehold into the possession of its heir.
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(property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
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(law) A deed or similar document by which the title to property is conveyed between parties.
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(law) A problem with the chain of title to a parcel of real property that exposes the putative owner of the property to a potential legal dispute over the ownership of the property.
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(US) An insurance policy on a piece of real estate for which the title deeds may be incomplete or not properly searched.
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(law) Property held by a trustee in a trust established by a grantor for a beneficiary.
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A person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
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(law) An implied lien (that is, one not created by mortgage or other express agreement) given in equity to a vendor of lands for the unpaid purchase money.
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(countable, law, real estate, obsolete) An obsolete legal agreement that was a real covenant and ran with the land, whereby the grantor and his heirs of a piece of real estate held in freehold were required to officially guarantee their claim and plead one’s case for the title. If evicted by someone with a superior claim (paramount title) they were also required to hand over other real estate of equal value in recompense. It has now been replaced by personal covenants and the covenant of warranty.
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(law) An implied warranty implying that the seller of goods has the right to sell them.
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