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  2. District of Columbia retrocession - Wikipedia

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    Virginia legislators were concerned that the people of Alexandria County had not been properly included in the retrocession proceedings. After months of debate, the Virginia legislature voted to formally accept the retrocession legislation on March 13, 1847. [4] A celebration and local holiday in honor of retrocession was then held on March 20 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Collection of judgments in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    To obtain a lien on real property in the state of Virginia, the judgment creditor must "docket" the lien in the public records office of the city or county where that property is physically located. Once the lien is docketed, the creditor files a "creditor's bill in equity" in that jurisdiction, which will require the chancellor to appoint a ...

  5. Abandonment (legal) - Wikipedia

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    In law, abandonment is the relinquishment, giving up, or renunciation of an interest, claim, privilege, possession, [1] civil proceedings, appeal, or right, especially with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting it. Such intentional action may take the form of a discontinuance or a waiver.

  6. List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

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    At a higher level, large areas of Virginia were split off to form new states, transferred as state boundaries were clarified, or came under the administration of the federal government. Virginia has 95 counties, 38 independent cities, and 190 incorporated towns. There are also hundreds of unincorporated places in Virginia with their own identities.

  7. Feoffment - Wikipedia

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    It was total relinquishment and transfer of all rights of ownership of an estate in land from one individual to another. [ citation needed ] In feudal England a feoffment could only be made of a fee (or "fief"), which is an estate in land , that is to say an ownership of rights over land, rather than ownership of the land itself, the only true ...

  8. First Virginia Charter - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the grants provided for in the Charter of 1606. The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement which could be used as a base to export commodities to Great Britain and create a buffer preventing total Spanish control of the North ...

  9. Great Grant Deed - Wikipedia

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    July 4. 1776. Commission to Collect Evidence in behalf of Virginia against persons pretending to have claims for lands within the territory thereof, under deeds and purchases from Indians; & for such purpose given power to summons and examine witnesses under oath and due notice of twenty days being given & c [57]