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  2. Restraint on alienation - Wikipedia

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    A restraint on alienation, in the law of real property, is a clause used in the conveyance of real property that seeks to prohibit the recipient from selling or otherwise transferring their interest in the property. Under the common law such restraints are void as against the public policy of allowing landowners to freely dispose of their ...

  3. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    The fertile octogenarian and the unborn widow are two legal fictions from the law of real property (and trusts) that can be used either to invoke the rule against perpetuities to make an interest in property void or, alternatively and much more frequently, to demonstrate the seemingly bizarre results that can occur as a result of the rule. The ...

  4. Alienation (property law) - Wikipedia

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    In property law, alienation is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to dispose of the property. Alienability is the quality of being alienable , i.e., the capacity for a piece of property or a property right to be sold or otherwise transferred from one party to another.

  5. Private transfer fee - Wikipedia

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    Private transfer fee covenants are filed in the real property records of the county in which the real property that is to be made subject to the fee is located. The instrument is typically styled "Declaration of Covenant", "Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions", or similar, and is executed by the property owner, known as the "Declarant".

  6. Rule in Shelley's Case - Wikipedia

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    The Rule in Shelley's Case is a rule of law that may apply to certain future interests in real property and trusts created in common law jurisdictions. [1]: 181 It was applied as early as 1366 in The Provost of Beverly's Case [1]: 182 [2] but in its present form is derived from Shelley's Case (1581), [3] in which counsel stated the rule as follows:

  7. 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.

  8. NC’s ‘alienation of affection’ law is rare, but here are 7 ...

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    Veronica Filipowski first sought $20 million in her alienation of affection lawsuit, arguing that her marriage to former Winston-Salem Dash baseball team owner Andrew “Flip” Filipowski had ...

  9. Equitable conversion - Wikipedia

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    Equitable conversion is a doctrine of the law of real property under which a purchaser of real property becomes the equitable owner of title to the property at the time he/she signs a contract binding him/her to purchase the land at a later date.