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  2. Life estate - Wikipedia

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    The ownership of a life estate is of limited duration because it ends at the death of a person. Its owner is the life tenant (typically also the 'measuring life') and it carries with it right to enjoy certain benefits of ownership of the property, chiefly income derived from rent or other uses of the property and the right of occupation, during his or her possession.

  3. 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.

  4. Concurrent estate - Wikipedia

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    A joint tenancy or joint tenancy with right of survivorship (JTWROS) is a type of concurrent estate in which co-owners have a right of survivorship, meaning that if one owner dies, that owner's interest in the property will pass to the surviving owner or owners by operation of law, and avoiding probate. The deceased owner's interest in the ...

  5. States with the Highest and Lowest Property Tax Rates - AOL

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    West Virginia John Denver sang about West Virginia for many reasons — and property tax rates should have been one of them. The Mountain State has an average property tax rate of 0.57%.

  6. Right to property - Wikipedia

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    The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often [how often?] classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.A general recognition of a right to private property is found [citation needed] more rarely and is typically heavily constrained insofar as property is owned by legal persons (i.e. corporations) and where it is used for ...

  7. Constitution of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The preamble was added to the constitution in 1960 by referendum. [10]Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and religious liberty, we, the people of West Virginia, in and through the provisions of this Constitution, reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God and seek diligently to promote, preserve and perpetuate good government in the State of ...

  8. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    Until 1868, all immovable property, also called in Scottish law "heritable property" (buildings, lands, etc.) was inherited exclusively by the eldest son and couldn't be included in a will. [127] After 1868, it could be included in a will or testament, but if a person died intestate , it was still inherited exclusively by the eldest son. [ 128 ]

  9. Married Women's Property Acts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The movement to expand the property rights of married women did not go unchallenged. Virginia debated and rejected such legislation in the 1840s. [17] In 1849, the Tennessee legislature stated, in one historian's account, "that married women lack independent souls and thus should not be allowed to own property."