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  2. Adverse possession - Wikipedia

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    Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.

  3. Bona fide purchaser - Wikipedia

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    However, equity allows a proven BFP to claim for a full legal conveyance from former legal owner, failing which the court itself will convey title. In the United States, the patent law codifies the bona fide purchaser rule, 35 U.S.C. § 261. Unlike the common law, the statute cuts off both equitable and legal claims to the title. [3]

  4. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.

  5. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    As a corollary to this exception, a landowner has superior claim over a find made within the non-public areas of his property, so if a customer finds lost property in the public area of a store, the customer has superior claim to the lost property over that of the store-owner, but if the customer finds the lost property in the non-public area ...

  6. What is title insurance, and do homebuyers need it? - AOL

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    Title insurance policies typically cost a median of 0.67 percent of the property’s sale price, according to data from Fannie Mae. The median cost in dollars is $1,901. The median cost in dollars ...

  7. Property law - Wikipedia

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    Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property, including intellectual property. [1] Property can be exchanged through contract law, and if property is violated, one could sue under tort law to protect it. [1] The concept, idea or philosophy of property underlies all property law.

  8. 'My house is unsellable': This Pennsylvania woman bought ...

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    Schwartzbauer claims she wasn’t informed of any such problems. Furthermore, the broadcaster says it tracked down the old owner and a former state employee who knew about the sale. Property problems

  9. California store owners who sold Mega Millions $1.22B jackpot ...

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    The unidentified lucky ticketholder can choose between the $1.22 billion jackpot paid out in installments over 29 years or take the one-time lump sum estimated at $549.7 million. One shopper gave ...