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Unowned property

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On 6 March 1351, Edward III conferred on his cousin Henry, fourth Earl of Lancaster, the dukedom of Lancaster. In the same charter he raised the county of Lancaster to a county palatine The profits of justice belonged to the new duke. The King ... escheator for the north-western counties of England
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Nearly every piece of land on the Earth is a property and has a maintainer (owner). The class of objects, "unowned things", are objects which are not yet property; either because it has been agreed by sovereign nations that no one can own them, or because no person, or other entity, has made a claim
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respectively. In both cases, if no rightful owner is found for the assets, the assets legally pass to the respective duchies. It has been stated that current practice for both is to donate these assets to charity. However, there is evidence that these funds have been used for personal profit of The
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assets on behalf of the Crown. If no heirs to an estate can be found then the assets are realised and the balance is transferred to HM Treasury. The division deals only with solvent estates whose net value exceeds ยฃ500. The assets of dissolved companies automatically pass to the Crown by law. They
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after death. Intangible personal assets such as checks, account balances, and securities are under unclaimed property law, varying by state. The states do not take permanent possession, but act as the custodian of the property in perpetuity on behalf of the rightful owner.
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is dealt with by the Crown Solicitor as the Treasury Solicitor's agent. The value of the assets collected in Northern Ireland are separately identified in the annual report of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor Accounts for the Crown's Nominee.
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are realised by the division and the revenue passed to the Exchequer, although the division has a power to disclaim onerous assets. Liabilities associated with assets do not automatically follow those assets into
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for "ownerless goods") is a legal concept associated with the unowned property, which exists in various jurisdictions, with a consequently varying application, but with origins mostly in English law.
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deals with assets of dissolved companies, the assets of missing persons and lost or abandoned property; lost or abandoned property involves a statutory saving for the Crown in ss.67โ€“79 of the
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states that the assets of those who die intestate leaving no other person entitled to inherit pass to the Crown. Both of these rights, together with treasure trove, are administered by the
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by having his viscounts continue to handle them. Until the 1337 and 1338 Duchy Charters, the issue was contentious between the king and earl. In the Duchy Charters, the king formalized the
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does not address the issue of private ownership of natural objects in space. All asteroids remain unowned things until some person or entity makes a claim of property right to one of them.
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who may then make further distribution. Unclaimed property other than money might also be claimed on behalf of the Crown but (as with the UK jurisdictions) this is not inevitable.
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was instructed to take no further action in the Palatinate. The Duke appointed his own escheator, who presumably accounted to the Duke at his Exchequer.
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Assets of the estates of deceased persons that have failed to be distributed due to intestacy and a lack of known persons entitled to inherit
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In the event that the animals are on a private entity's estate, the owner of the estate, if pursuing or attempting to apprehend
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assets in Scotland are not aggregated with those from elsewhere in the United Kingdom, being paid directly into the
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is applied according to the laws of the relevant province, and the roots of the laws may be traced to Roman law.
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that he made use of; he claimed he had designated Eros a spacecraft parking facility and wished to charge
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under s.369 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, as amended, and are administered by the Receiver-General (
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McClenaghan, Maeve; Evans, Rob; Dyer, Henry; Hunter-Green, Zeke; Kalanaki, Marjan (2023-11-23).
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Assets of dissolved companies that have failed to be distributed or have been disclaimed by the
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is likely to be deemed, by the court, the rightful possessor to the title of the animal.
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Official Website of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service of Scotland
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includes tangible, physical things that are capable of being reduced to being
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that is permanently stored there. Nemitz's case was dismissed due to lack of
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are not predisposed to one party or another in regards to possession.
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established in 1230 the Office of the Royal Escheator to centralize
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was inherited from English common law and continues in the form of
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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2003/11/18319/27604
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a parking and storage fee of twenty cents per year for its
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Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service โ€“ Bona Vacantia
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In Guernsey, assets of dissolved companies may become
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property escheated to the duchy instead of the Crown.
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legal term referring to wild animals, in contrast to
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Index

Property law

common law
Personal property
Community property
Real property
Unowned property
Gift
Adverse possession
Deed
Conquest
Discovery
Accession
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
Treasure trove
Bailment
License
Alienation
Estates in land
Allodial title
Fee simple
Fee tail
Life estate
Defeasible estate
Future interest
remainder
Concurrent estate
Leasehold estate
Condominiums
Real estate

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