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  2. Real Estate Definitions Every Seller Should Know - AOL

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    When it comes to selling a home there's a lot to know beyond staging and setting a reasonable list price.As with any industry, there are real estate definitions (homestead, quit-claim) and a set ...

  3. Assessors of Maat - Wikipedia

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    Maat, in whose name the 42 judges who flanked Osiris acted, was the deification of truth, justice, rectitude, and order of the cosmos and was often symbolized by an ostrich feather (the hieroglyphic sign of her name).

  4. Property law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Property law in the United States is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land and buildings) and personal property, including intangible property such as intellectual property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property. [1]

  5. Index of real estate articles - Wikipedia

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    Binder – In law, a binder (also known as an agreement for sale, earnest money contract, memorandum of sale, or contract to sell) is a short-form preliminary contract in which the purchaser agrees to buy and the seller agrees to sell certain real estate under stated terms and conditions, usually in the form of a purchase offer, and is ...

  6. List of housing statutes - Wikipedia

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    [definition needed] Federal [definition needed] Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Act (1970) 1970 [definition needed] Federal [definition needed] Housing and Community Development Act of 1974: 1974: Affordable housing Federal: Amended the Housing Act of 1937 to create Section 8 housing: Real Estate Settlement ...

  7. Property law - Wikipedia

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    Property law is characterised by a great deal of historical continuity and technical terminology. The basic distinction in common law systems is between real property (land) and personal property (chattels). Before the mid-19th century, the principles governing the transfer of real property and personal property on an intestacy were quite ...

  8. List of United States federal legislation - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation. Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 119 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.

  9. List of laws - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of "laws" applied to various disciplines. These are often adages or predictions with the appellation 'Law', although they do not apply in the legal sense, cannot be scientifically tested, or are intended only as rough descriptions (rather than applying in each case).