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In a legal context, an appurtenance refers to a right, privilege, or improvement belonging to or that accompanies a principal property. [1] For example, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has defined appurtenance as "That which belongs to something else. Something annexed to another thing more worthy."
1. In French-law-based systems, refers only to those sources of subjective law that are human-made and voluntary (vs. factum iuridicum); 2. In German-law-based systems, encompasses all sources of subjective law, be they human-made or not, voluntary or not. See also negotium iuridicum. ad quantitatem: by the quantity
Profits appurtenant created on or after 13 October 2003 over an unregistered servient tenement need not be substantively registered with HM Land Registry in order to take effect at law. Where a profit appurtenant is a right of common, it cannot be registered within the land registry system, but will instead fall within the remit of the commons ...
The word "real" derives from Latin res ("thing"). Under European civil law, a lawsuit that seeks official recognition of a property right is known as an actio in rem (action in relation to a thing).
Frequently nowadays in British energy law and real property law, a wayleave is a type of easement, appurtenant to land or in gross, used by a utility that allows a linesman to enter the premises, "to install and retain their cabling or piping across private land in return for annual payments to the landowner".
In United States contract law, an implied covenant of good faith is presumed. A covenant is an agreement like a contract . A covenantor makes a promise to a covenantee to perform an action (affirmative covenant in the United States or positive covenant in England and Wales ) or to refrain from an action (negative covenant).
So the plain meaning of a legal text is something like the meaning that would be understood by competent speakers of the natural language in which the text was written who are within the intended readership of the text and who understand that the text is a legal text of a certain type.
Property rights are constructs in economics for determining how a resource or economic good is used and owned, [1] which have developed over ancient and modern history, from Abrahamic law to Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.