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  2. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    The rule against perpetuities serves a number of purposes. First, English courts have long recognized that allowing owners to attach long-lasting contingencies to their property harms the ability of future generations to freely buy and sell the property, since few people would be willing to buy property that had unresolved issues regarding its ownership hanging over it.

  3. Adverse possession - Wikipedia

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    A lawful owner may also restart the clock at zero by giving temporary permission for the occupation of the property, thus defeating the necessary "continuous and hostile" element. [ citation needed ] Evidence that a squatter paid rent to the owner would defeat adverse possession for that period.

  4. Bona fide purchaser - Wikipedia

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    A bona fide purchaser (BFP) – referred to more completely as a bona fide purchaser for value without notice – is a term used predominantly in common law jurisdictions in the law of real property and personal property to refer to an innocent party who purchases property without notice of any other party's claim to the title of that property.

  5. 1921-1928 Newport, Kentucky steel strike - Wikipedia

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    The same day, A.M.J Cochran, district judge of Maysville Kentucky issued an injunction against the striker, forbidding them to maintain pickets around the plant, the order was listed as temporary, with strikers having 20 days to file an answer for why it shouldn't be permanent, which if they fail to answer becomes a permanent order by default.

  6. Breach of contract - Wikipedia

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    The first is actual failure to perform the contract as and when specified constitutes the first and most obvious type of breach. A contract lays down what must be done, what cannot be done, and when it must be done. If what was prescribed has not been done within the stipulated or reasonable period, there has been a breach of contract.

  7. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Not clothed with a public interest. jus: law, right Essentially: law. jus accrescendi: right of survivorship Right of survivorship: In property law, on the death of one joint tenant, that tenant's interest passes automatically to the surviving tenant(s) to hold jointly until the estate is held by a sole tenant.

  8. Proprietary estoppel - Wikipedia

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    Proprietary estoppel is a legal claim, especially connected to English land law, which may arise in relation to rights to use the property of the owner, and may even be effective in connection with disputed transfers of ownership. Proprietary estoppel transfers rights if someone is given a clear assurance that they will acquire a right over ...

  9. Justice delayed is justice denied - Wikipedia

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    There are conflicting accounts of who first noted the phrase. According to Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations, it is attributable to William Ewart Gladstone; [2] [3] however, while Gladstone did mention the phrase during a House of Commons debate on 16 March 1868, [4] earlier occurrences of the phrase exist.