Property

Property signifies dominion or right of use, control, and disposition which one may lawfully exercise over things, objects, or land. One of the basic dividing lines between property is that between real property and personal property. Generally, the term “real property” refers to land. Land, in its general usage, includes not only the face of the earth but everything of a permanent nature over or under it. This is FindLaw’s collection of Real and Personal Property articles, part of the Business Operations section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

Property

Property Articles

Owner’s Payments of Reduced Amounts to Subcontractors Found to be Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practice

Can an owner, who is in a dispute with the general contractor, pay subcontractors reduced amounts on their contracts without first obtaining the consent of the general contractor? According to a recent decision by a Boston Municipal Court trial ...
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Payment of Rent during Appeal

On October 1, 1998, North Carolina enacted Session Law 1998-125, entitled "An Act To Require Tenants To Pay To The Clerk Of Court The Amount Of Rent In Arrears To Stay The Execution Of Judgment For Summary Ejectment Pending Appeal To District Court ...
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Personal Liability Protection

More and more law suits are being filed in the United States in ever expanding areas of litigation. Last year approximately one million attorneys filed twenty million law suits in the USA. Nearly 95% of the law suits on the planet are filed in this ...
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Planning for San Francisco’s Future: Information Technology and Biotech

The nation's and Bay Area's economies are evolving rapidly. New industries continue to evolve in sectors that may be as hard to imagine as the Internet was only a decade ago. Accommodating new businesses that don't fit our conventional vision of ...
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Pre-Funding Woes

Clients have reported increasing pressure from vendors to pre-fund transactions. In some instances, this constitutes a requirement by the vendor that transactions be funded when equipment is shipped, rather than when it is accepted. In other cases ...
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Prince George’s County

In keeping with the old saying "the grass is always greener on the other side," Prince George's County, like its neighbor (Montgomery County), is now considering the implementation of its own growth policy measure. Councilmen Stephen J. Del Giudice ...
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Product Liability

Long v. Tokai Bank of California, 682 N.E.2d 1052 (Ohio App. 9/20/96). PRODUCT LIABILITY - In a pre-UCC 2A case, a "financial lessor" (apparently, a lessor who would be protected by a "finance lease" determination under Article 2A) was held not to ...
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Property Leasing

As you will recall, in January of 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada released its long-awaited decision in Crystalline Investments Limited v. Domgroup Ltd. ("Crystalline"), 2004 S.C.J. No. 3. The Supreme Court in Crystalline, (upholding the ...
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Quiet Enjoyment in Commercial Leases: What is it? Where is it going?

I doubt that most people reading this know what is really meant by the "covenant of quiet enjoyment." Understandably so. Because quiet enjoyment is a common law concept, case law is the sole source of its definition. The definitions constructed in ...
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Radio Towers Are Not Necessarily Beneficial

Many municipalities throughout New Jersey have witnessed an increase in the number of applications before their zoning and planning boards seeking approval of radio transmission towers. As mobile communications have expanded to serve ever increasing ...
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