Legal Dictionary

Tag: Property

  • Fruit

    The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed, or is used for food. The term in legal acceptation, is not confined to the produce of those trees which in popular language are called fruit trees; but applies also to the produce of oak, elm, and walnut trees. In the old books the…

  • Goodwill

    The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers. See Metropolitan Nat. Bank v St. […]

  • Gift

    A voluntary transfer of any thing made without consideration or expectation of consideration. The essential components of a valid completed gift of personal property are: competency of the donor to give the gift; voluntary intent on the part of the donor to make a gift; delivery […]

  • Property Tax

    Property Tax

    Impuesto sobre el Patrimonio…

  • Acquisition

    The act by which a person procures the property of a thing. The thing the property in which is secured. Original acquisition is that by which a man secures a property in a thing which is not at the time he acquires it, and in its then existing condition, the property of any other […]

  • Acquisition

    The act by which a person procures the property of a thing. The thing the property in which is secured. Original acquisition is that by which a man secures a property in a thing which is not at the time he acquires it, and in its then existing condition, the property of any other […]

  • Ad Coelum Doctrine

    Meaning of Ad Coelum Doctrine Resources See Also Rule Of Capture Mines Minerals Property

  • Ad Coelum Doctrine

    Meaning of Ad Coelum Doctrine Resources See Also Rule Of Capture Mines Minerals Property

  • Ingenuus

    A free born man ; a man free from the moment of his birth; being born in wedlock the son of parents either freeborn or made free. (Roman Law.)…

  • Messuage

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Messuage Meaning of Messuage A dwelling house and land appurtenant to same. See Hall v Philadelphia Co., 78 S.E. 755, 72 W. Va. 573. Messuage Alternative […]

  • Animal

    Any animate being which is not human, endowed with the power of voluntary motion. Domitae are those which have been tamed by man; domestic. Ferae naturae are those which still retain their wild nature. Mansuetae naturae, those which are tame by nature. …

  • Animal

    Any animate being which is not human, endowed with the power of voluntary motion. Domitae are those which have been tamed by man; domestic. Ferae naturae are those which still retain their wild nature. Mansuetae naturae, those which are tame by nature. …

  • Jus In Re

    (Lat.) A right which belongs to a person, immediately and absolutely, in a thing, and which is the same against the whole world, idem, erga omnes. See Jus ad Rem. …

  • Jus In Re

    (Lat.) A right which belongs to a person, immediately and absolutely, in a thing, and which is the same against the whole world, idem, erga omnes. See Jus ad Rem. …

  • Acceleration of remainder

    See acceleration of estate….