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Purpose of this page is to provide a general overview of select legal terms, topics, concepts, and principles.  These materials do not substitute for competent legal advice and are intended for educational purposes only.

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Topics addressed include

Legal Definitions

Adverse Possession

Basic Principles
Common Law
Comparative Negligence
Contracts

Contract or Tort?

Criminal v. Civil
Deed

Drainage

Easement (and profit)

Eminent Domain

Endangered Species
Equity

Executive Branch
Exempt Property
Fiduciary Responsibility

Fixtures

Goverment, Overview of
Independent Contractor

Intellectual Property
Intestate Succession

Judicial Branch

Legislative Branch

Merger of Property Interests
Mineral Rights

Mitigate, Duty to
Police Power

Property
Real and Personal Property Distinguished (password protected)
Fee Simple and Other Fee Estates (password protected)
Life Estates, Reversions and Remainders (password protected)
Co-ownership: 
Tenancy in Common (password protected)
Joint Tenancy (password protected)
Tenancy by Entirety (password protected)
Community Property (password protected)
Partition of Co-owned Property (password protected)
Transferring property -- restraints against alienation
Trusts (password protected)
Express Trusts
Land Trusts
Implied Trusts

Property - Intangible

Property Division -- Divorce

Quiet Title Action

Section Lines

Sovereign Immunity
Summary Judgment

Torts
Trial v. Appeal
Unjust enrichment

Wilderness Act

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This material is intended for educational purposes only.  It is not a substitute for competent legal counsel.   Seek appropriate professional advice for answers to your specific questions.


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Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2002
Published By: Department of Agricultural Economics