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Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land) and personal property. ... owned by a person—a car, a book, ...
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]
Land law, or the law of "real" property, is the most significant area of property law that is typically compulsory on university courses. Although capital, often held in corporations and trusts, has displaced land as the dominant repository of social wealth, land law still determines the quality and cost of people's home life, where businesses and industry can be run, and where agriculture ...
Articles and Book Chapters. Fact and Fiction in the Law of Property, 11 GREEN BAG 2d 65 (2007). LexisNexis Westlaw; Second Thoughts in the Law of Property, 10 GREEN BAG 2d 65 (2006). LexisNexis Westlaw; The Enumeration of Rights: "Let Me Count the Ways," 9 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 281 (2006). LexisNexis Westlaw
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:
The shelter rule is a doctrine in the common law of property under which a grantee who has received an interest in property from a bona fide purchaser will also be protected as a bona fide purchaser, even if the grantee would not legally qualify for this status. The grantee is "sheltered" from other claims by the grantor's status as an actual ...
In law, possession is the control a person intentionally exercises toward a thing. Like ownership, the possession of anything is commonly regulated under the property law of a jurisdiction.
The bundle of rights is a metaphor to explain the complexities of property ownership. [1] Law school professors of introductory property law courses frequently use this conceptualization to describe "full" property ownership as a partition of various entitlements of different stakeholders.