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regulatory taking
which exceeds the government's legitimate police power (as the power to enact safety regulations) and for which the owner may seek a writ of mandamus, declaratory relief, or just compensation (as by inverse condemnation) compare physical taking,
possession
actual possession of another's real property that is open, hostile, exclusive, continuous, adverse to the claim of the owner, often under a claim of right or color of title, and that may give rise to title in
conversion
of a real property becomes, upon the execution of a contract for the sale of the property, the owner of personal property in the form of legal title to the property that secures payment of the purchase
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Partition
Partition, is mitakshara 'partition' may be only severance of the joint status of the members of the coparcenary, that it to say, what was once a joint title has become a divided title though there has...
Way
TURNPIKE-ROADS. Highways generally be-come so by what is called a 'dedication' of them to the pubic by the owner of the soil. Public bridle-paths and footways are highways within the meaning of the Highway Acts. As highways
Trespasser
Barnett, 1911 AC 370; and see Latham v. R. Johnson & Nephew, (1913) 1 KB 398; but an owner of a field upon which to his knowledge the public habitually trespassed was under the circumstances held liable
Tree
Tree. Overhanging branches may be cut by an adjoining owner without notice to the owner of the tree, provided that the adjoining owner does not go upon the
Trade marks
which is capable of registration under the pro-visions of this Act. Subject to the Trade Mark Acts, the owner of a trademark has a right to its use in connection with the goods associated with it, whether
Hire-purchase system
Hire-purchase system. A system whereby the owner of goods lets them on hire for periodic payments by the hirer upon an agreement that when a
Title, Covenants for
In a conveyance for valuable consideration other than a mortgage by a person expressed to convey as beneficial owner:-That, notwithstanding anything done, omitted, etc., by the person conveying, or anyone through whom he derives title otherwise than
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