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Paraphernalia

relative, or even by a stranger, before or after marriage, they would be deemed absolute gifts to her separate use; and then, if received with the husband's consent, he could not, nor could his creditors, dispose of … spouse is a question of fact, Tasker v. Tasker, 1895, P. 1. At law, before the Married Women's Property Act (see MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY), the husband, in his lifetime might dispose of his wife's paraphernalia; excepting, indeed,

Adjunctio

thing attaches to or includes in his own property a thing belonging to another. If it cannot be separated again and thereby becomes an extincta res, the property in the whole generally belongs to the person who

Marshalling

rule that where an owner of several properties has mortgaged them to the same person and afterwards deals separately with the equity of redemption in one or more of the properties either by way of mortgage of … shall be satisfied as far as, by any arrangement consistent with the nature of the several claims, the property which they seek to affect can be applied in satisfaction of such claims. In the administration of the

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Joint-tenancy

the property in severalty, for this is a disunion of their possession, and they have then but a separate interest in the several parts of the land, and the jus accrescendi is gone. (2) By alienation without

Receiver

appoint a receiver of the mortgaged property, if empowered so to do by the mortgage deed or by separate instrument, without having to apply to the court; and by s.19 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, reproduced

regime

Under the Louisiana Civil Code there are various regimes for various types of property, such as community or separate property. These regimes, while usually established by the law, may also be modified or created by agreement of the

The law relating to evacuee property

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Confusion, property by

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Avuision

properties, cuts off part of one and joins it to the other. The property of the part thus separated continues in the original proprietor, in which respect avulsion differs from alluvion, i.e., where an addition is insensibly

condominium

Latin com- with, together + dominium rule, ownership] 1 : ownership of real property that is characterized by separate ownership of portions of the property (as units in an apartment building) and undivided or joint ownership of

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