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Featured Article: Assignment

Assignment is the legal term for the transfer of rights to property or money from one person to another. See more »

Air rights

Air rights are the rights to use the space above a piece of real estate.

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Assignment

Assignment is the legal term for the transfer of rights to property or money from one person to another.

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Attachment

Attachment is the legal term for a court order to seize a person or a person's property.

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Claim

Claim, in its general meaning, is a legal demand.

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Conveyancing

Conveyancing is the legal procedure for transferring real property from one owner to another.

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Deed

Deed is a written document to transfer ownership of real estate.

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Easement

Easement is the right to use another person's land for a specific purpose.

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Eminent domain

Eminent domain, in the United States, is the power of a government to take private property for public use.

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Entail

Entail is an estate that descends to certain heirs, rather than to all the heirs.

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Escrow

Escrow, EHS kroh, is cash, a document, or other property given to one person for delivery to someone else when a certain condition is met.

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Estate

Estate is a legal term that refers to a person's total property.

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Eviction

Eviction, in law, is an action that deprives a tenant of the use of leased premises, such as an apartment or an office.

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Fixture

Fixture, in law, refers to personal property that has been affixed to houses, land, or other real estate.

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Garnishment

Garnishment is a legal process by which the credits or property of a debtor, in the hands of a third party, may be held for payment of debts.

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Joint tenancy

Joint tenancy is the ownership of a piece of property by two or more people.

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Lease

Lease is an agreement that gives one person or company the right to possess property owned by another person or company.

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Lien

Lien, leen, is a legal claim that one person has on the property of another as security for debt.

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Occupancy

Occupancy, OK yuh puhn see, is a legal method by which a person or nation acquires title to something that no one else owns.

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Personal property

Personal property is one of the two classes into which all property may be divided.

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Property

Property, in law, means the rights people have in things.

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