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• PROPERTY — Classification Property may be divided into different classes in accordance with the various legal principles applicable thereto. One common division is between immovable property and movables, distinguished from each other in the following… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Property — • The person who enjoys the full right to dispose of it insofar as is not forbidden by law Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Property     Property      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• LOST PROPERTY — (Heb. avedah u meẓi ah; lit. lost and found ). The Basis of the Law Lost property, called avedah, is property which has passed out of its owner s possession and whose whereabouts are unknown to him. Both criteria must exist together for the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• HEFKER — (Heb. הֶפְקֵר), ownerless property and renunciation of ownership. Hefker is property that is ownerless and can therefore be legally acquired by the person who first takes   possession of it. There are two categories of ownerless property: (1)… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• ACQUISITION — (Heb. קִנְיָן; kinyan) the act whereby a person voluntarily obtains legal rights. In Jewish law almost all kinds of rights, whether proprietary (jus in rem) or contractual (jus in personam; see obligations ), can be voluntarily acquired only by… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• THEFT AND ROBBERY — (Heb. גְּנֵבָה וּגְזֵלָה). An object which is in the possession of a person without the consent of its owner or any other person having a right thereto, when that person knows – or should know – that the latter does not consent, is considered to… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… …   Wikipedia

• Hungarian Gold Train — The Hungarian Gold Train was the case of a Nazi operated train during World War II that carried stolen valuables, mostly Hungarian Jewish persons property, from Hungary towards Berlin in 1944. After seizure of the train by American forces, almost …   Wikipedia

• Res nullius — (lit: nobody s thing ) is a Latin term derived from Roman law whereby res (objects in the legal sense, anything that can be owned, even slaves, but not subjects in law such as citizens) are not yet the object of rights of any specific subject.… …   Wikipedia

• Bona vacantia — (Latin for vacant goods ) is a common law doctrine in the United Kingdom under which ownerless property passes by law to the Crown. It has largely replaced the doctrine of escheat, which had a similar effect in relation to feudal tenures. The… …   Wikipedia

• waif — (n.) late 14c., unclaimed property, flotsam, stray animal, from Anglo Norm. waif, gwaif (early 13c.) ownerless property, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to O.N. veif waving thing, flag, from P.Gmc. *waif , from PIE *weip to turn,… …   Etymology dictionary