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A landlocked parcel is a real estate plot that has no legal access to a public right of way. [1] Generally, a landlocked parcel has less value than a parcel that is not landlocked. [2] Often, the owner of a landlocked parcel can obtain access to a public roadway by easement. [3]
'Merger is the absorption of a lesser estate by a greater estate, and takes place when two distinct estates of greater and lesser rank meet in the same person or class of persons at the same time without any intermediate estate.' "[1] Similarly, a merger doctrine extinguishes an easement by necessity to a landlocked piece of property once that ...
New Mexico voters approve an amendment to the state constitution that prohibits ineligible aliens from owning property in the state (the amendment is removed in 2006). [16] 1923 - Idaho and Montana pass alien land laws. [4] 1925 - Kansas and Arkansas write their own laws restricting property rights. [4]
Texas Senate Bill 147, which would bar Chinese citizens from buying property, evokes for critics a history of anti-Asian discrimination facilitated by laws.
Easements, as property rights owned by the beneficiary and usually recorded on titles, are stronger than licenses which are merely personal rights under contract. Purported licenses that have any of the properties of an easement may be determined to be easements or bound by the higher standards for termination of an easement.
The property of subjects is under the eminent domain of the state, so that the state or he who acts for it may use and even alienate and destroy such property, not only in the case of extreme necessity, in which even private persons have a right over the property of others, but for ends of public utility, to which ends those who founded civil ...
Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land. In many jurisdictions, these kinds of property are referred to as real estate or real property, as distinct from personal property. Land use agreements, including renting, are an important intersection of property and contract law.
Under the common law, real estate can be jointly owned at a given time. [16] In most states, in a tenancy in common , co-tenants each have a theoretical right to possess the whole property. [ 16 ] Co-tenants must also share rents received from third-parties, as well as upkeep expenses and taxes. [ 16 ]