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  2. Homestead exemption - Wikipedia

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    Most homestead exemptions cover the land including fixtures and improvements to it, such as buildings, timber, and landscaping. Nevada exempts $605,000 in equity from sale on execution, but for homesteads for which allodial title has been established and not relinquished, the exemption extends to all equity in the homestead. [4]

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.

  4. Terra nullius - Wikipedia

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    Michael Connor, however, argues that territorium nullius and terra nullius were the same concept, meaning land without sovereignty, and that property rights and cultivation of land were not part of the concept. [25] The term terra nullius was adopted by the International Court of Justice in its 1975 Western Sahara advisory opinion. [26]

  5. List of territorial disputes - Wikipedia

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    The Tajik Government ceded 1,158 km 2 to the PRC, while PRC relinquished its 73,000 km 2 claim over the remaining territory with final ratification of a treaty in January 2011. [89] [note 2] However, the settlement is not recognized by the Republic of China, which would claim its westernmost point to be at 71°E along the Panj. [note 2] Paracel ...

  6. U.S. territorial sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    During the Revolutionary War, military bounty land was promised to soldiers who fought for the colonies. [29] After the war, the Treaty of Paris of 1783, signed by the United States, the UK, France, and Spain, ceded territory to the United States. [30] [31] In the 1780s, other states relinquished their own claims to land in modern-day Ohio. [32]

  7. Quitclaim - Wikipedia

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    For example, a tenant in possession might acquire a fee simple in the land from a superior landowner such as a freeholder. In such a case, the use of quitclaim circumvented the multistep process of the tenant having to formally give up possession to the original freeholder, merely in order to be re-granted possession by feoffment as freeholder ...

  8. Six Nations land cessions - Wikipedia

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    The land ceded covered, partially or in the entire, the U.S. states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and North Carolina. They were bordered to the west by the Algonquian lands in the Ohio Country, Cherokee lands to the south, and Muscogee and Choctaw lands to the southeast.

  9. Unowned property - Wikipedia

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    Unowned property includes tangible, physical things that are capable of being reduced to being property owned by a person but are not owned by anyone. Bona vacantia (Latin for "ownerless goods") is a legal concept associated with the unowned property, which exists in various jurisdictions, with a consequently varying application, but with origins mostly in English law.