Also known as: properties
Written by attorneys · grounded in primary & secondary sources — see below
The right to possess, use, and enjoy a determinate thing. The term also denotes any external thing over which those rights are exercised.
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Pamela Phillips signed a binding contract to purchase land from Phoebe Park. Before closing a fire destroyed the house on the parcel. Pamela must still pay the full purchase price because equity treats her as owner once the contract formed.
Premier Manufacturing owned a factory site that the state wanted for a highway. The state initiated condemnation proceedings. Premier is entitled to just compensation before being deprived of the land.
Prism Analytics retained Paige Porter as counsel in a commercial dispute. Paige received settlement proceeds belonging to the client. She deposited the money into a separate trust account rather than her operating account.
Patrick Phan leased an apartment from Platinum Partners for residential use. On the move-in date the unit lacked working plumbing and heat. Patrick may refuse possession and terminate the lease because the premises were unsuitable for living.
Pulse Media operated a facility that emitted strong odors affecting nearby homes. Phuong Pham, a resident next door, proved the odors caused significant interference with ordinary use of her property. She recovered damages for the harm to her land.
Pablo Perez owned vacant land in the forum state but lived elsewhere. A plaintiff sued him over an unrelated contract claim and attached the land to obtain jurisdiction. The attachment alone did not satisfy minimum contacts for personal jurisdiction.
Yes. Once a binding contract for the sale of land is formed, equity treats the buyer as owner of the land, so the risk of loss from destruction before closing passes to the buyer in most jurisdictions.
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The government may not deprive any person of property without due process of law and may not take private property for public use without just compensation.
…Similarly, unborn children have been recognized as acquiring rights or interests by way of inheritance or other devolution of property, and have been represented by guardians ad litem. [^maj-66] Perfection of the interests involved, again, has generally been contingent upon live birth. In short, the unborn have never been…
…the wife was given to the husband by her father or guardian has been abandoned. The rule that a married woman could not own property in her own name has been abandoned. The rule that a marriage was not valid if the parties were of different races has been invalidated. These changes in the understanding of marriage have…
…v. West Virginia , 100 U.S. 303, 307-308 (1880): "It ordains that no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property
…the New York Central and Harlem lines of the Penn Central Railroad. In 1968 appellants entered into a lease agreement with UGP Properties
…notice contravenes requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment and that by allowance of the account beneficiaries were deprived of property
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A lawyer must hold client or third-party property separate from the lawyer's own property, keep funds in a separate trust account, identify and safeguard other property, and maintain complete records.
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A landlord breaches if the leased property is not suitable for residential use on the date the lease is made and continuously thereafter until the tenant is entitled to possession, without fault of the tenant.
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Only those to whom the nuisance causes significant harm of a kind that would be suffered by a normal person in the community or by property in normal condition and used for a normal purpose.
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No. The minimum contacts standard applies to all exercises of state-court jurisdiction, including quasi in rem actions. Mere presence of property unrelated to the dispute does not establish sufficient contacts.
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