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Unclaimed property laws in the United States provide for two reporting periods each year whereby unclaimed bank accounts, stocks, insurance proceeds, utility deposits, un-cashed checks and other forms of "personal property" are reported first to the individual state's Unclaimed Property Office, then published in a local newspaper and then ...
Texas v. New Jersey, 380 U.S. 518 (1965), is a United States Supreme Court decision handed down on February 1, 1965. Concerning the authority of the state to escheat, or take title to, unclaimed personal property, the Court was petitioned, under its power of original jurisdiction, to adjudicate a disagreement between three states, Texas, New Jersey, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, over ...
Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. [488] Toyah: Reeves: Semi-abandoned site [489] Toyahvale: Reeves [490] Towash: Hill: No longer exists. [491] Trickham: Coleman: Semi-abandoned Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town, with a year-2000 population of 12 residents ...
MissingMoney.com is a web portal created by participating U.S. states to allow individuals to search for unclaimed funds. [1] It was established in November 1999, [2] as a joint effort between the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) and financial services provider CheckFree. [3] By December of that year, 10 states ...
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.
Phelan is a ghost town in Bastrop County, Texas, United States. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bastrop near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 157 (Sayers Road) and Farm to Market Road 36 (Phelan Road). It is on private property. [1]
Accountants distinguish personal property from real property because personal property can be depreciated faster than improvements (while land is not depreciable at all). It is an owner's right to get tax benefits for chattel, and there are businesses that specialize in appraising personal property, or chattel.
Typically such a deed will not warrant that the property title is free and clear, and it remains up to the grantee to check that the property is not subject to any legal encumbrances. [ 11 ] Usage varies by state, and in Massachusetts quitclaim deeds include statutory warranties (similar to “special warranty deeds” in other states) and are ...