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Constructive possession is an important concept in both criminal law, regarding theft and embezzlement, and civil law, regarding possession of land and chattels. For example, if someone steals your credit card number , the credit card never leaves your actual possession, but the person who has stolen the number has constructive possession and ...
Full case name: Janet Eves v Stuart Eves : Decided: 28 April 1975: Citations [1975] EWCA Civ 3 [1975] 1 WLR 1338: Case history; Prior action: Appellant lost in the High Court on 10 April 1974 before the Vice Chancellor: Court membership; Judges sitting: Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls Browne LJ Brightman J: Keywords; constructive trust ...
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals affirmed, but the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed, holding that, absent specific facts tending to show Pringle's knowledge and dominion or control over the drugs, the mere finding of cocaine in the back armrest when Pringle was a front-seat passenger in a car being driven by its owner was insufficient to ...
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.
Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172 (1997), discussed the limitation on admitting relevant evidence set forth in Federal Rule of Evidence 403. Under this rule, otherwise relevant evidence may be excluded if the probative value of the evidence is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, misleading the jury, or considerations of undue delay ...
In law, possession is the exercise of dominion by a person over property to the exclusion of others. [1] To possess something, a person must have an intention to possess it and an apparent purpose to assert control over it. [2] A person may be in possession of some piece of property without being its owner.
Thomas Haslem v. William A. Lockwood, [1] Connecticut, (1871) is an important United States case in property, tort, conversion, trover and nuisance law.. The plaintiff directed his servants to rake abandoned horse manure into heaps that had accumulated in a public street, intending to carry it away the next day.
Pierson v. Post is an early American legal case from the State of New York that later became a foundational case in the field of property law.. The case involved an incident that took place in 1802 at an uninhabited beach near Southampton, New York.