Land
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in law, any ground, soil, or earth regarded as the subject of ownership, including trees, water, buildings added by humans, the air above, and the earth below.
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LAND - This term comprehends any found, soil or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furze and heath.
Land
(n) Land is the surface of the earth identified by specific boundaries, including the airspace above that portion of surface, the minerals beneath it, and the erections and developments on the surface.
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Land Disposal Restrictions: Rules that require hazardous wastes to be treated before disposal on land to destroy or immobilize hazardous constituents that might migrate into soil and ground water.
Real property Land - buildings
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Running With The Land at Legal Glossary What is it? A phrase used in property law to describe a right or duty that remains with a piece of property no matter who owns it.
Land. 1. Comprehends all things of a permanent, substancial nature; being a word of very extensive signification. Conn. 517; 9 Id. 377. Real property; realty.
Land Trust: A nonprofit organization engaged in the voluntary protection of land for the purpose of providing long-term stewardship of important resources, whether historical, archeological, or environmental, ...
Land
This is the ground, the buildings built on it, the subsoil below the ground, property fixed to the ground, and the airspace above the ground necessary for its ordinary use.
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Torrens Land Registration System:
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.
Land
Definition - Noun
1 : an area of the earth usu. inclusive of improvements, bodies of water, and natural or man-made objects and extending indefinitely upward and downward
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Land or things attached to land; real property or real estate.
A term not entirely foreign to the common law but recognized as issue from Roman law and its offspring, the civil law.
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Land and the property permanently attached to it, such as buildings, houses, stationary mobile homes, fences and trees. In legalese, real estate is also called real property.
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Land, buildings, and other improvements affixed to the land.
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LAND MARK
A monument set up in order to ascertain the boundaries between two contiguous estates. For removing a land mark an action lies. 1 Tho.... more ...
Land claims - within 12 years of the action that caused you to make your claim.
Land Law, Gray & Gray (ISBN 0-406-96377-0) - An accessible textbook on English property law.
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Land accretion that occurs by the erosion or addition of one's land by the sudden and unexpected change in a river stream such as a flash flood. Also meaning, trauma or a surgical procedure that tears away a body part or tissue.
Off the land. By Pennsylvania statute of March 21, 1772, it is enacted that if any tenant for life, years, at will, or otherwise, shall fraudulently or clandestinely convey his goods off the premises to prevent the landlord from distraining the same, ...
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Possessor of Land: A person who occupies land and intends to control it. Most often, it is the owner of the property.
Pour-Over Will: A will that leaves some or all estate assets to a trust established before the will-maker's death.
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Land and anything permanently affixed to the land, and those things attached to the building.
Recital
Setting forth in a deed or other writing some explanation for the transaction.
Real Property: Land, buildings, and other improvements affixed to the land.
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Real Property: Land, buildings, and other improvements affixed to the land.
Reasonable Care: The degree of care that a prudent or careful person would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.
When two pieces of land or other parcels of real property touch each other or share a common border.
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Real Property
Land, and whatever grows on or is affixed to it.
Reasonable Care
That degree of care that would ordinarily be exercised by a reasonably prudent person under similar circumstances.
REAL PROPERTY: Land and all the things that are attached to it. Anything that is not real property is personal property and personal property is anything that isn't nailed down, dug into or built onto the land.
(b) Persons holding land of the manor by copy of court roll, or copyhold tenants.
Real Property Real property, as contrasted with personal property (also called personalty), is land together with the buildings and fixtures on the land.
They were considered to be "dead", so much so that their land was forfeited to the King and their wife considered to be a widow. If they refused to renounce their oath, they could be starved out of the sanctuary.
Certificate of Pending Litigation Notice to a person that a proceeding has been started against the person questioning their interest in land.
Easement A right of passage over a neighbor's land or waterway. An easement is a type of servitude. For every easement, there is a dominant and a servient tenement.
Partition: Division of jointly-owned land or property between the respective owners.
Partnership: Two or more persons carrying on a business together.
trespass to private land). Usually the claim will be for compensation.
Claimant
The name given to the person who brings a civil action.
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Real Property - Land and everything that is permanently affixed to it.
Receiver - A person who is appointed by a court to receive, and hold in trust, property in litigation.
tenant in common - Tenants who hold the same land together by several and distinct titles, but by unity of possession, because none knows his own severalty, and therefore they all occupy promiscuously.
Special rights of people who own land that runs into a river bank (a "riparian owner" is a person who owns land that runs into a river).
Mortgage: An interest given on a piece of land, in writing, to guarantee the payment of a debt or the execution of some action. It automatically becomes void when the debt is paid or the action is executed.
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ACCELERATION CLAUSE In a mortgage, note, bond, etc.
land subject to Roman ownership, slaves, beasts of draft and burden, and rustic servitudes belonging to land subject to Roman ownership). All other property is res nec mancipi and can be transferred by mere traditio.
detainer Act of withholding from a person lawfully entitled to possession of land or goods, or to the restraint of a person's liberty, against his will; ...
Real Estate: Physical land and appurtenances affixed to the land: land.
Real Property: All interests, benefits, and rights inherent in the ownership of physical real estate.
TERRA NULLIUS
Empty land / land of no one
Typically used to refer to a territorial category for land that is not occupied but capable of being occupied.
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Real estate refers to land, whether it is used for residential, industrial or commercial purposes. Real estate has become a hot topic in Michigan after the state legislature amended the constitution...
parcel: a tract or a plot of land
part: a court room where specified business of a court is to be conducted by a judicial officer
party: Person having a direct interest in a legal matter, transaction or proceeding.
Parcel: A tract or a plot of land.
Parenting Education Program: A mandatory program for persons involved in a divorce with children or a custody or visitation case. Must be attended within 60 days of the return date on the summons.
United States Supreme Court - The highest court in the land, established by U.S. Constitution.
Unlawful detainer - A detention of real estate without the consent of the owner or other person entitled to its possession.
Term: Real Property
Definition: Land, and whatever grows on or is affixed to it.
Term: Reasonable Care
Definition: That degree of care that would ordinarily be exercised by a reasonably prudent person under similar circumstances.
Property tax - A tax levied on land and buildings (real estate) and on personal property.
Proprietor - Owner; person who has legal right or title to anything.
Lien - a legal claim usually against a piece of land for payment of some debt, obligation, or duty. Some forms of liens are tax liens and materialman's liens.
Litigation - a controversy in a court.
Agraria: A standard term applied to laws dealing with public land and/or its distribution (generally to plebes).
Ambitu: A standard term applied to laws dealing with bribery.
Conveyance -Instrument transferring title of land for one person or group of persons to another.
Conviction -A judgment of guilt against a criminal defendant.
The rules or principles by which the UK is governed. These rules comprise the current laws of the land (statutes in force), legal precedent and the sometimes unwritten conventions and traditions of the UK and its institutions.
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Mortgage - A mortgage is an interest in land created by a written instrument providing security for the performance of a duty or the payment of a debt.
Mortgagee - He that takes or receives a mortgage.
abstract of title - A chronological history, in abbreviated form of the ownership of a parcel of land.
accessory - A person who assists in the commission of a crime, either before or after the fact.
forcible entry and detaineeOrdinarily refers to a summary proceeding for restoring possession of land to one who has been wrongfully deprived of possession.
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