Condominium

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Condominium

Meaning of Condominium

A single real property parcel with all the unit owners having a right in common to use the common elements with separate ownership confined to the individual units which are serially designated. Also, the term denotes the system of separate ownership of individual units in multiple unit building or project. It is a system of ownership of realty whereby a parcel of realty and building or buildings thereon are owned by more than one person , each of whom has two separate and distinct real property interests: 1. fee simple ownership of a unit or apartment, and 2. an undivided interest , together with all of the other unit owners in the project, to common elements. See Gerber v Town of Clarkstown, 356 N. Y.S.2d 926, 78 Misc.2d221.

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Condominium in Historical Law

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Condominium in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of condominium.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Condominium

(You may find condominium at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

c. 1714, “joint rule or sovereignty,” from Modern Latin condominium “joint sovereignty,” apparently coined in German c. 1700 from Latin com “with, together” (see com-) + dominum “right of ownership, property, dominion,” from dominus “lord, master, owner,” from domus “house” (from PIE root *dem- “house, household”). A word in politics and international law until sense of “privately owned apartment” arose in American English 1962 as a special use of the legal term.

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  • Law Enforcement Officer
  • Policeman
  • Law Enforcement Agency

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English Legal System: Condominium

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Condominium :

1. Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more states (the word is also used for the territory subject to joint sovereignty). For example, the New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific were a Franco-British condominium until 1980. Sovereignty is joint, but each jointly governing power has separate jurisdiction over its own subjects.

Compare co-imperium.

2. Individual ownership of part of a building (e.g. a flat in a block of flats) combined with common ownership of the parts of the building used in commo


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