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abandoned property

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Abandoned property

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abandon

to give up with the intent of never again asserting or claiming an interest in (a right or property) 2 : to disassociate oneself from or forsake in spite of a duty or responsibility to [ one's … abandon 1 : to give up with the intent of never again asserting or claiming an interest in (a

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property

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abandonment

abandonment 1 : the act of abandoning property or a right: as a : relinquishment by an inventor of

Abandonment

abandonment of proceedings, see. R.S.C., Ord. XXVI, and Fox v. Star Newspaper Co., 1900 AC 19; as to abandoned mines, see the (English) Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872, ss. 12-14; the (English) Coal Mines Act, 1911, ss. … of a barge sunk in the Thames, and therefore no freedom from responsibility. Also the surrender of his property by a debtor for the benefit of his creditors. The Civil Law permitted a master who was sued

Relinquishment

the interest of the person even after relinquishing his interest in the property is either given up or abandoned or surrendered. Relinquishment also presupposes that the property in which the interest is relinquished continues to be in

Insurance

of the assured, the damage sustained being made good by the insurer; in the second, the property is abandoned to the insurer, and the value insured claimed from him, he retaining the property so abandoned. See CON-STRUCTIVE

Common stock or common hotchpot

joint family property if it is voluntarily thrown by him into the common stock with the intention of abandoning his separate claim therein. The separate property of a Hindu ceases to be a separate property and acquires

Bona vacantia

of a person who dies intestate as his ultimate heir, it merely takes possession of property which is abandoned, Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Co. Ltd. v. State of Bombay

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