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ownership

ownership : the state, relation, or fact of being an owner ;also : the rights or interests of an

persons lawfully using the street or footpath, the local authority may, by notice in writing served upon the owner, require him, within the period specified in the notice and hereinafter in this s. referred to as the

Estrays

Estrays, such valuable animals as are found wandering in a manor or lordship, the owner whereof is not known; in which case the law gives them to the Sovereign, and they now most

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Lost grant

grant, is a mere presumption from long possession and exercise of user by easement with acquiescence of the owner, that there must have been originally a grant to the claimant, which had been 'lost', Braja Kishore Jagdev

Distress

the (English) Act of 1888 dispenses with it unless it be required in writing by the tenant or owner of the goods; and enacts also that the goods must, at the request of the tenant or owner,

Free-board, or freebord

of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park over a strip of ground, varying in width indifferent cases, running along the outside

Forest

possession, though it is capable of being vested in a subject. A forest is a right which the owner thereof (whether sovereign or subject) may have either in his own lands or the lands of another, differing

Loss

Loss, the word 'loss' used in Railway Act can never mean loss to the owner, it means that the goods have disappeared in the course of transit and neither the railway nor the

Entrustment

over any property or on whose behalf that property is handed over to another, continues to be its owner. Entrustment is not necessarily a term of law. It may have different implications in different contexts. In its

Estate

Estate [fr. status, Lat.; etat, Fr.], the condition and circumstance in which an owner stands with regard to his property. The word is used in several senses and may denote either an

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