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Legal resolution for Cybersquatting - 3/30/2006
Domain name disputes are typically resolved using the Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy (UDRP) process developed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ...
Usucaption - 3/30/2006
Usucaption is a concept found in civil law systems and has its origin in the Roman law of property. ...
Usufruct - 3/30/2006
Usufruct is the legal right to use and derive profit from property that belongs to another person, as long as the property is not damaged. ...
Airplanes and Air Rights - 3/30/2006
Unlimited air rights existed when people began owning real estate. It was not something that anyone really concerned themselves with before the 20th Century. ...
Railroads and Air Rights - 3/30/2006
Railroads were the first companies to realize the potential of making money from their air rights. ...
Crown land - 3/30/2006
Crown land is a designated land belonging to the Crown, the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it. ...
Other names for Tower block - 3/30/2006
The name commieblock (Communal Blockhouse) has recently come into use to refer to a standardised tower block with serial design, often highrise apartment used for public housing. ...
Estate (area) - 3/30/2006
An estate (or housing estate) (mostly UK) refers to a defined area of housing, usually in a common style or built during the same period. ...
Subsidized housing - 3/30/2006
Subsidized housing aka Social housing is government supported accommodation for people with low to moderate incomes. ...
Types of Subsidized housing - 3/30/2006
There are many types which are mentioned herein. ...
Brownfield land - 3/30/2006
Brownfields are defined as abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. ...
Barriers to Redevelopment of Brownfields - 3/30/2006
Many contaminated brownfield sites sit idle and unused for decades, because the cost of cleaning them up to safe standards is more than the land would be worth after redevelopment. ...
Innovative Brownfields Redevelopment Strategies - 3/30/2006
A number of innovative financial and remedial techniques have been employeed in recent years to expedite the clean up of brownfields sites. ...
Post Redevelopment Uses of Brownfields - 3/30/2006
Some state governments restrict development of brownfield sites to particular uses in order to minimize exposure to contamination left on-site after the clean up is completed; such properties are deed-restricted in their future usage. ...
Regulation of Brownfields - 3/30/2006
In the United States, investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites is largely regulated by state environmental agencies in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency. ...
Primogeniture - 3/30/2006
Primogeniture is the common tradition of inheritance by the first-born of the entirety of a parent's wealth, estate or office; or in the absence of children, by collateral relatives, in order of seniority of the collateral line. ...
Heir Presumptive - 3/30/2006
An Heir Presumptive (capitalised) is the person provisionally scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honor, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an Heir Apparent or of a new Heir Presumptive with a better claim to the throne. ...
Heir Apparent - 3/30/2006
The term heir apparent is most often used to refer to someone who is first in the order of succession to a throne and who cannot lose this status by the birth of any other person. ...
Women as heirs apparent - 3/30/2006
However, not all queens regnant or daughters who are first-in-line, are heirs presumptive. Where a son does not have superior legal status in a succession ahead of a daughter, and the daughter becomes first-in-line by right rather than in the absence of a son, she becomes heiress apparent. ...
Who becomes heir apparent? - 3/30/2006
The question of who becomes heir apparent is usually decided either by custom, convention, or by law. ...
Position inherited through descent from the Heir Apparent - 3/30/2006
In primogeniture, the position of Heir Apparent does not descend to each of the monarch's children in turn, but through the direct, legal line from the initial heir apparent. ...
Ultimogeniture - 3/30/2006
Ultimogeniture, also known as postremogeniture or junior right, is the tradition of inheritance by the last-born of the entirety of a parent's wealth, estate or office. ...
Gavelkind - 3/30/2006
Gavelkind was a peculiar system of land tenure associated chiefly with the county of Kent, but found also in other parts of England. ...
Allodial title - 3/30/2006
Allodial title is a concept in some systems of property law. ...
Legal concept of Allodial title - 3/30/2006
Allodial lands are the absolute property of their owner and not subject to any service or acknowledgment to a superior. ...
Misuse of concept of allodial title - 3/30/2006
Many anti-tax and anti-government groups are convinced that the references to allodial title in state constitutions and the Treaty of Paris give property owners absolute, inalienable title to their property. ...
Land tenure - 3/30/2006
Land tenure is the name given, particularly in common law systems, to the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, who is said to "hold" the land. ...
Land tenure in England - 3/30/2006
Even before the Norman Conquest, there was a strong tradition of landholding in Anglo-Saxon law. ...
Odalsret - 3/30/2006
The Odalsret or Odalsrett is the ancient Norwegian right, when a farm is to be sold, of any member of the family to buy it, consistent with Åsædesret. ...
Bundle of Rights - 3/30/2006
The bundle of rights theory is a common way of explaining how rights in property are held. ...
Abstract of title - 3/30/2006
An abstract of title is the condensed history of title to a particular parcel of real estate, consisting of a summary of the original grant and all subsequent conveyances and encumbrances affecting the property and a certification by the abstractor that the history is complete and accurate. ...
Acre - 3/30/2006
An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. It is most often used to describe areas of land. ...
Ad valorem tax - 3/30/2006
An ad-valorem tax is a tax based on the assessed value of real estate or personal property. ...
Adjustable rate mortgage - 3/30/2006
An adjustable rate mortgage or variable rate mortgage is a loan secured on a property (house) whose interest rate and so monthly repayment vary over time. ...
Adverse possession - 3/30/2006
In real estate common law, adverse possession is a means of acquiring title to another's real property without compensation, by, as the name suggests, holding the property in a manner that conflicts with the true owner's rights. ...
Real estate broker - 3/30/2006
A real estate broker is in the business of brokering real estate transactions; that is, finding sellers for those who want to buy real estate and finding buyers for those trying to sell real estate. ...
Real estate licensees and realtors - 3/30/2006
In the United States, there are commonly two levels of real estate professionals licensed by the individual states, not by the federal government: ...
American Land Title Association - 3/30/2006
The American Land Title Association or ALTA, is a national trade association representing the interests of the abstract of title and title insurance industries ...
Amortization (business) - 3/30/2006
Amortization is the distribution of a single lump-sum cash flow into many smaller cash flow installments, as determined by an amortization schedule. ...
Amortization schedule - 3/30/2006
An amortization schedule is a table detailing each periodic payment on a loan (typically a mortgage), as generated by an amortization calculator. ...
Antitrust - 3/30/2006
Antitrust or competition laws are laws which seek to promote economic and business competition by prohibiting anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. ...
Apartment - 3/30/2006
An apartment (or flat in Britain and other Commonwealth countries) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ...
Apartment types and characteristics - 3/30/2006
Apartments can be classified into several types. Studio or efficiency apartments tend to be the smallest apartments with the cheapest rents in a given area. ...
Real estate appraisal - 3/30/2006
A real estate appraisal is a service performed, by an appraiser, that develops an opinion of value based upon the highest and best use of real property. ...
Types of value - 3/30/2006
There are several types and definitions of value sought by a real estate appraisal. ...
Appreciation - 3/30/2006
Appreciation is a term used in accounting relating to the increase in value of an asset. ...
Argus (software) - 3/30/2006
Argus is a financial analysis program used in the commercial real estate industry. ...
Arrears - 3/30/2006
Arrears, or arrearages is a legal term for the type of debt accrued after missing an expected payment. ...
Assessment - 3/30/2006
Assessment is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. ...
Types of assessment - 3/30/2006
Assessments can be classified in many different ways. ...
Types of assessments - 3/30/2006
There are four types of assessments. ...
Characteristics of assessments - 3/30/2006
Assessment should be valid and reliable. A valid assessment is one which measures what it is intended to measure. ...
Assignment (law) - 3/30/2006
An assignment is a term used with similar meanings in the law of contracts and in the law of real estate. ...
Assignment (law) - 3/30/2006
An assignment is a term used with similar meanings in the law of contracts and in the law of real estate. ...
When assignment will be permitted - 3/30/2006
The common law favors the freedom of assignment, so an assignment will generally be permitted unless there is an express prohibition against assignment in the contract. ...
Requirements for an effective assignment - 3/30/2006
For assignment to be effective, it must occur in the present. No specific language is required to make such an assignment, but the assignor must make some clear statement of intent to assign clearly identified contractual rights to the assignee. ...
Assignment of property rights - 3/30/2006
Real property rights can be assigned just as any other contractual right. However, special duties and liabilities attach to transfers of the right to possess property. ...
Real estate broker - 3/30/2006
A real estate broker is in the business of brokering real estate transactions; that is, finding sellers for those who want to buy real estate and finding buyers for those trying to sell real estate. ...
Real estate licensees and realtors - 3/30/2006
In the United States, there are commonly two levels of real estate professionals licensed by the individual states, not by the federal government. ...
Services provided by real estate agents to customers - 3/30/2006
The customers of real estate brokers are the sellers and buyers of the real estate to be sold. ...
National Association of Realtors - 3/30/2006
The National Association of Realtors (NAR), whose members are known as "Realtors," is America's largest trade association, representing 1 million members, including NAR's institutes, societies, and councils, involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. ...
United States housing bubble - 3/30/2006
The United States housing bubble refers to a belief that there is an economic bubble in real estate in the United States. ...
Capital gain - 3/30/2006
In finance, a capital gain is profit that results from the appreciation of an asset from its purchase price. ...
Different types of Capital gain - 3/30/2006
There are three types of capital gains. ...
Capitalization rate - 3/30/2006
A Capitalization Rate (or "Cap Rate") is a measure of the ratio between the net income produced by an asset (usually real estate) and its capital cost (the original price paid to own the asset). ...
Chain of title - 3/30/2006
A chain of title is the sequence of historical transfers of title to a property. ...
Closing cost - 3/30/2006
Real property in most jurisdictions is conveyed from the seller to the buyer through a real estate contract. ...
Closing (real estate) - 3/30/2006
Closing is the final step in executing a real estate transaction. ...
Community land trusts - 3/30/2006
Land trust communities trace their conceptual history to India's gramdans where villages held property in the community interest, and to European and North American land banks, which are quasi-public agencies that invest in land often to help build family farms or to encourage economic development. ...
Comparables - 3/30/2006
Comparables
Properties that are similar to the subject property. In real estate, a real estate agent checks the selling prices of comparables to help determine the value of a property he is appraising. ...
Real estate contract - 3/30/2006
A real estate contract is a contract for the purchase/sale, exchange, or other conveyance of real estate between parties. ...
Details explained on the contract - 3/30/2006
There are many which are mentioned herein. ...
Conveyancing - 3/30/2006
Conveyancing is the act of transferring the ownership of a property from one person to another. ...
Conveyancing in United Kingdom - 3/30/2006
In England and Wales this is usually done by a solicitor or a conveyancer. ...
Conveyancing in United States - 3/30/2006
The conveyancing process in the United States varies from state to state depending on local legal requirements and historical practice. ...
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