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Legitimate expectation

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expectation of privacy

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interest

government benefit) without due process ;broadly : something (as a job or benefit) to which one has a legitimate claim of entitlement and that cannot be taken away without due process as distinguished from the unprotected object … was designed to guard against the destructibility of contingent remainders set forth in the rule in Shelley's case. expectation interest : the interest of a party to a breached contract in receiving the benefit of the bargain

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regulatory taking

taking : an appropriation or diminution of private property rights by a governmental regulation which exceeds the government's legitimate police power (as the power to enact safety regulations) and for which the owner may seek a writ … or specificity of the regulation, and the extent of the regulation's impact on the owner's property rights and expectations. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that an owner can bring an action for compensation when the taking

Tail

Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 3, in tracing descents under entailed interests created after the date of legitimation, a legitimated person will rank according to seniority next after all children born legitimate on the day of his or … the protector is to grant or withhold his consent, which is required to enable a tenant-in-tail in remainder, expectant on an estate of free-hold, to bar as well his own issue as also those in remainder, to

use

use 1 : use by or to the benefit of the public ;broadly : use that serves a legitimate or conceivable public purpose [nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation "U.S. Constitution … use is fair and reasonable and does not substantially impair the value of the work or the profits expected from it by its owner ;also : the privilege of making a fair use of copyrighted work NOTE:

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