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  2. Real estate - Wikipedia

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    Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

  3. Real property - Wikipedia

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    In countries with personal ownership of real property, civil law protects the status of real property in real-estate markets, where estate agents work in the market of buying and selling real estate. Scottish civil law calls real property heritable property, and in French-based law, it is called immobilier ("immovable property").

  4. Inalienable possessions - Wikipedia

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    Inalienable possessions (or immovable property) are things such as land or objects that are symbolically identified with the groups that own them and so cannot be permanently severed from them. Landed estates in the Middle Ages , for example, had to remain intact and even if sold, they could be reclaimed by blood kin.

  5. Property - Wikipedia

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    One categorization scheme specifies three species of property: land, improvements (immovable man-made things), and personal property (movable man-made things). [11] In common law, real property (immovable property) is the combination of interests in land and improvements thereto, and personal property is interest in movable property. Real ...

  6. Transfer of Property Act 1882 - Wikipedia

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    The Interpretation of the Act, says "Immovable property does not include standing timber, growing crops or grass". Section 3(26), The General Clauses Act, 1897, defines, " immovable property" shall include land, benefits to arise out of the land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth.

  7. Waqf - Wikipedia

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    The property dedicated to waqf is generally immovable, such as an estate. All movable goods can also form waqf , according to most Islamic jurists. The Hanafis, however, also allow most movable goods to be dedicated to a waqf with some restrictions.

  8. Private property - Wikipedia

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    The four broad types of property taxes are land, improvements to land (immovable human-made objects, such as buildings), personal property (movable human-made objects), and intangible property. The social and political context in which private property is administered will determine the extent to which an owner will be able to exercise rights ...

  9. Personal property - Wikipedia

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    Personal property can be understood in comparison to real estate, immovable property or real property (such as land and buildings). Movable property on land (larger livestock, for example) was not automatically sold with the land, it was "personal" to the owner and moved with the owner.