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  2. Usufruct - Wikipedia

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    He pairs the concept of usufruct with complementarity and the irreducible minimum as core to his ethical world view. What "civilization" has given us, in spite of itself, is the recognition that the ancient values of usufruct, complementarity, and the irreducible minimum must be extended from the kin group to humanity as a whole. [16]

  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. List of commodity booms - Wikipedia

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    Merchant ships fill San Francisco harbor, 1850–51. The stately Victorian architecture of Dunedin, New Zealand, is a result of the capital brought into the city by the Otago gold rush of the 1860s.

  5. Usucaption - Wikipedia

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    Usucaption is a method by which ownership of property (i.e. title to the property) can be gained by possession of it beyond the lapse of a certain period of time (acquiescence). While usucaption has been compared with adverse possession, the true effect of usucaption is to remedy defects in title of lands that are without encumbrance on them.

  6. Servitude in civil law - Wikipedia

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    Originally, enclave was a term of property law, across much of Europe, particularly seen early in 15th century France derived from earlier ecclesiastical senses, for the situation of a main estate of land or a parcel of land surrounded by land owned by a different owner(s), and that could not be reached for its exploitation in a practical and sufficient manner without crossing the surrounding ...

  7. Category:1903 in United States case law - Wikipedia

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  8. 1903 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    February 11 – The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races. February 14 Census Board within the Department of Commerce and Labor ( Census Bureau ).

  9. Ulpian's life table - Wikipedia

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    The age of the legatee is checked against the table; the figure recorded on the table is multiplied by annuity's annual value. Five percent of this last figure is what is owed in tax. [ 6 ] Ulpian's life table gives figures broadly consistent with the Coale –Demeny Model West life table : female life expectancy at birth is 22.5 years, male ...