(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)
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Public easement
any easement enjoyed by the public in general (as the public's right to use public streets)
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a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.(law) immediate and direct physical control over property
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(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) 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) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology.(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology.(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…
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A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in commo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public; "a public nuisance offends the public at la…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief from responsibili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: easement, enjoyed, public, right, streets.
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