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Alien

favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects … take effect till the applicant has taken the oath of allegiance. The certificate gives the grantee all the rights, powers, and privileges and subjects him to all obligations, duties and liabilities of a natural-born British subject, and

prescription

is similar to the common-law statute of limitations. prescription of nonuse : the extinguishment or termination of a real right other than ownership as a result of the failure to exercise the right for a period of time

Adverse possession

of any person to whom the land rightfully belongs and tends to extinguish that person's title, see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), which provides that no person shall make an … possession or occupancy of land which is inconsistent with the title of any person to whom the land rightfully belongs and tends to extinguish that person's title, see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38

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Merger

may be extinguished, whilst as against another it may still have existence. Before the passing of the (English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106) (repealed and reproduced by the (English) Law of Property … supposed to coalesce must be vested in the same person at the same time and in the same right' [Re Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the

redeem

present and have redeemed b : to exchange for something of value vi : to redeem something (as real property) [failed to exercise its equity of redemption, and this part of the right to was therefore cut

party

or judicial body ;esp : a person whose pecuniary interests are affected by a bankruptcy proceeding 2 : real party in interest in this entry proper party : a party whose interests are likely to be affected … and that confers standing to appeal called also aggrieved person party aggrieved indispensable party : a party whose rights are so connected with the claims being litigated in an action that no judgment can be rendered without

Emphyteusis

name arising from there being a new ownership, or what almost amounted to an ownership, engrafted on the real dominion. Either shortly before or in the time of Justinian, the two rights, that of the ager vectigalis … Emphyteusis, the jus emphyteuticarium, or as it is more generally called, emphyteusis, was the right of enjoying all the fruits, and disposing at pleasure of the property of another, subject to the payment

title

law of Louisiana : a juridical act (as a sale or donation) sufficient to transfer ownership or a real right ;also : the title that derives from such an act [have a just title] NOTE: For the purposes

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Inheritance

of representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral consanguinity of the owner dying intestate. These rules have been abolished in … hereditary succession, is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of

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