Property Law

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11 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Property Law.

• Alienation (property law) — The voluntary transfer or conveyance of a property interest by its holder to another person through a legally recognized act.
• Alluvion — A property-law mode by which gradual imperceptible river deposits accede to riparian land and ownership follows the principal parcel.
• Conditional limitation — A property-law provision under which an estate or interest terminates automatically when a stated contingency occurs and another interest may take effect.
• Intangible property — A legally recognized ownership interest in a nonphysical right, claim, entitlement, or statutory creation that can be held and often transferred under governing law.
• Marketable title — A real-property title sufficiently free from reasonable doubt and litigation risk that a prudent buyer can be compelled in equity to accept it under the contract.
• Occupatio — A Roman-law mode of original acquisition by taking possession of an ownerless thing with intent to own it.
• Proprietary estoppel — An equitable doctrine allowing relief where a property owner gives an assurance of rights, the claimant reasonably relies on it to their detriment, and repudiation would be unconscionable.
• Tacking (law) — A property-law doctrine allowing a present claimant to combine a predecessor's qualifying period of possession or priority with their own when legally sufficient privity connects them.
• Use (law) — A historical equitable property arrangement in which one person holds legal title for the benefit or purposes of another.
• Usufruct — A limited real right that separates use and enjoyment of another's property, including taking its fruits, from the power to alienate or destroy the underlying asset, subject to preservation and return duties.
• Vacant possession — A conveyancing obligation to deliver property so the entitled recipient can immediately and exclusively occupy and substantially use it without occupants, impediments or adverse claims.