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  2. Claim of right doctrine - Wikipedia

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    In the tax law of the United States the claim of right doctrine causes a taxpayer to recognize income if they receive the income even though they do not have a fixed right to the income. For the income to qualify as being received there must be a receipt of cash or property that ordinarily constitutes income rather than loans or gifts or ...

  3. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    The common law may apply many exceptions to the rule that the first finder of lost property has a superior claim of right over any other person except the previous owner. For example, a trespasser's claim to lost property which he finds while trespassing is generally inferior to the claim of the respective landowner. As a corollary to this ...

  4. Right to property - Wikipedia

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    The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often [how often?] classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.A general recognition of a right to private property is found [citation needed] more rarely and is typically heavily constrained insofar as property is owned by legal persons (i.e. corporations) and where it is used for ...

  5. Property law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Property law in the United States is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land and buildings) and personal property, including intangible property such as intellectual property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property. [1]

  6. Property qualification - Wikipedia

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    A property qualification is a clause or rule by which those without property (land), or those without property of a set appraised value, or those without income of a set value, are not enfranchised to vote in elections, to stand for election, to hold office or from other activities.

  7. Community property in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Some states have created a newer form of community property, called "community property with right of survivorship". This form of holding title has some similarities to joint tenancy with right of survivorship. The rules and effect of holding title as community property (or another form of concurrent ownership) vary from state to state.

  8. Scheduled personal property coverage: what it is and ... - AOL

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    Personal property is a standard coverage on a homeowners insurance policy. It covers belongings like furniture and clothing, paying up to a certain limit if they are stolen or damaged by a covered ...

  9. Women's property rights - Wikipedia

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    Broadly defined, land rights can be understood as a variety of legitimate claims to land and the benefits and products produced on that land. [2] Inheritance, transfers from the State, tenancy arrangements, and land purchase are all constructs of land rights. [3] These rights can be in the form of actual ownership or usufruct, the rights of use.