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  2. James Reavis - Wikipedia

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    As an example of the problem, he identified one document containing the word tanacion, a word not in the Spanish language. Another example was the word descrubudo, an incorrect past tense of the verb describir, being used instead of the correct descrito. [212] FA forged Peralta grant document: The page in entirety was inserted into a cedula.

  3. Glossary of mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers - Wikipedia

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    To purchase just less than 5% shares of a company to get a toehold, so that one can buy more later and notify the authorities that one now holds more than 5% shares of the company. White Knight A term used in a hostile takeover context, when a company, which can not prevent a takeover looks for a friendly rescuer who might outbid the Black ...

  4. Land grabbing - Wikipedia

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    The term "land grabbing" is defined as very large-scale land acquisitions, either buying or leasing. [citation needed] The size of the land deal is multiples of 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) or 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) and thus much larger than in the past. [4]

  5. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    A unit of area traditionally defined as the area of a plot of land one chain (66 feet) by one furlong (660 feet), equivalent to 43,560 square feet (0.001563 sq mi; 4,047 m 2), or about 0.40 hectare. active volcano A volcano that is currently erupting, or one that has erupted within the last 10,000 years (the Holocene) or during recorded history ...

  6. Municipal annexation - Wikipedia

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    In the United States and Canada, however, annexation may also involve one polity absorbing another, usually an adjacent and smaller one, and usually by vote of the residents of both polities. For example, in 1872, the city Zanesville , Ohio annexed the adjacent community of Putnam , [ 2 ] and in 1889, the city of Toronto annexed the adjacent ...

  7. Property finder - Wikipedia

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    The majority of property finders charge a retainer fee before they begin the search for a property. Users of full service estate agents in the UK can expect to pay a flat fee while, more typically in the US, a percentage of the property purchase price may be received from the seller's broker by means of an offer of compensation to cooperating brokers or it can be paid directly by the buyer.

  8. Land law - Wikipedia

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    The trials concerning land take so long to process that many women do not even attempt to seek legal assistance. Women's Land Link Africa provides suggestions to alleviate inequality in land ownership. Rural women can be educated about their rights through radio campaigns, community discussions, educational outreach programs, and public forums ...

  9. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

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    These two acts were passed as legislation in an attempt to cut crop and livestock surplus. [1] Originally, Congress enacted the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 Pub. L. 74–46 , 49 Stat. 163 on April 27, 1935 in an attempt to address farm erosion problems by bringing within its policy and purposes, the improvements and preservation of national ...