(law) immediate and direct physical control over property
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Eminent Domain
The right of the government to expropriate private property.
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(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signe…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signe…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signe…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.possession of controlled substances
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.any easement enjoyed by the public in general (as the public's right to use public streets)
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged
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A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private proper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, government, expropriate, private, property.a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vot…
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