Category: Land Tenure
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Spot Zoning
This court has held that ‘spot zoning is the ‘reclassification of a small area of land (more in the U.S.) in such a manner as to disturb the tenor of the surrounding neighborhood.’. . . . Two elements must be satisfied before spot zonin…
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Riparian Rights
Rights which are connected with or follow the ownership of the shores or banks of streams and rivers or any nontitled water course ; the rights of owners of the shores or banks of the seas or lakes are known as littoral rights. See Johnson v McCowen, (Fla.App.)348 So.2d357. These are […]
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Tenancy At Sufferance
See Sufferance, tenancy at.
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Estoppel In Pais
Ordinarily one who accepts a deed which recites that the land (more in the U.S.) is subject to, or that he assumes the payment of, a mortgage (more about mortgages in the U.S.) to a certain amount is…