bequeathed property

  • 1property law — Introduction       principles, policies, and rules by which disputes over property are to be resolved and by which property transactions may be structured. What distinguishes property law from other kinds of law is that property law deals with… …

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  • 2Property Premium — is the key concept in the system of property based economics developed by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger, together with Hans Joachim Stadermann. It is an insight derived from the legal distinction between property and possession, which although …

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  • 3Bequeathed — Bequeath Be*queath (b[ e]*kw[=e][th] ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bequeathed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bequeathing}.] [OE. biquethen, AS. becwe[eth]an to say, affirm, bequeath; pref. be + cwe[eth]an to say, speak. See {Quoth}.] 1. To give or leave by will;… …

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  • 4bequeathed — be·queath || bɪ kwiːð v. endow, leave property to someone in a will; pass on, transfer to another …

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  • 5WILLS — (Heb. צַוָּאָה). A will is a person s disposition of his property in favor of another in such manner that the testator retains the property or his rights to it until his death. There are three different forms of wills, each governed by different… …

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  • 6Edinburgh —    EDINBURGH, a city, the seat of a university, and the metropolis of the kingdom of Scotland, situated in longitude 3° 10 30 (W.), and latitude 55° 57 29 (N.), about a mile (S. by W.) from Leith, 40 miles (S.S.W.) from Dundee, 42 (E. by N.) from …

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  • 7Banff —    BANFF, a sea port, burgh, market town, and parish, in the county of Banff, of which it is the chief town, 165 miles (N. by E.) from Edinburgh, on the road from Aberdeen to Inverness; containing 3958 inhabitants. This place, called in ancient… …

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  • 8Thomas Nash — Infobox Person name = Thomas Nash caption = Portrait of Thomas Nash birth date = Birth date|1593|6|20 (baptism) birth place = Stratford upon Avon, England death date = Dda|1647|4|4|1593|6|20 death place = Stratford upon Avon, England occupation …

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  • 9Ninian's, St. —    NINIAN S, ST., a parish, in the county of Stirling; containing, with the late quoad sacra parishes of Bannockburn and Plean, and the villages of Cambusbarron, St. Ninian s, Torbrex, and the Whins of Milton, 10,080 inhabitants, of whom 1295 are …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 10Egyptian law — Law that prevailed in Egypt from с 3000 BC to с 30 BC. No formal Egyptian code of law has been preserved, but legal documents (e.g., deeds and contracts) have survived. The pharaoh was the ultimate authority in the settlement of disputes. The… …

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