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Confusion of boundaries

Confusion of boundaries, was a jurisdiction of equity, concurrent with the Common Law. The Civil Law was far more provident than ours upon the subject of boundaries. It considered that there was a tacit agreement or duty between adjacent proprietors to keep up and preserve the boundaries between their respective estates, and it enabled all persons having an interest to bring a suit to have the boundaries between them settled; and this, whether they were tenants for years, usufructuar-ies, mortgagees, or proprietors. The action was called actio finium regundorum; and if the possession were also in dispute, that might be ascertained and fixed in the same suit, and indeed was incident to it. Equity adopts this general rule, not to entertain jurisdiction in cases of confusion of boundaries upon the ground that the boundaries are in controversy, but to require that there should be some equity super induced by the act of the parties; such as some particular circumstances of fraud, or some co...

confusion

confusion 1 in the civil law of Louisiana : a uniting of two interests or rights in property into one compare merger 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : the termination of an obligation by a person acquiring the right from which the obligation arose 3 : the mixing or blending together of goods or commodities so that the individual owners cannot identify their own property called also confusion of goods ...

likelihood of confusion

likelihood of confusion A statutory basis for refusing registration of a trademark or service mark because it is likely to conflict with a mark or marks already registered or pending before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The principal factors considered in determining whether there is a likelihood of confusion are: (1) the similarity of the marks; and (2) the commercial relationship between the goods and/or services listed in the application. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

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