An abstract of title lists all the owners of a piece of land, a house, or a building before it came into possession of the present owner.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

Air shows, and other big shows such as agricultural shows, on grassy land, are vulnerable to continued heavy rain waterlogging the ground, and making the cloudbase too low for flying, forcing cancellation, or the show ending early, costing much money for the show's organizers, as people and parking cars have difficulty moving about and turn the land into a morass, and the organizers may be tempted to put straw or cinders down to make movement easier, and the owner of the land cannot accept the resulting damage.

For example, " an owner of agricultural land may be compelled to raise wheat instead of sheep and employ more labour than he would find profitable.

The payment for use and the received income of a land owner is rent.

In 1911, owner John I. Taylor purchased the land bordered by Brookline Avenue, Jersey Street, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street and developed it into a larger baseball stadium.

* Freehold ( law ) and fee simple: ownership of land and the buildings on such land ( as opposed to a leasehold estate where property reverts to the owner when the lease expires )

It is plain that the innovator in these examples becomes a partial owner of the tangible property ( e. g., land and logs ) of others, due not to first occupation and use of that property ( for it is already owned ), but due to his coming up with an idea.

The father — that is, the owner of the land — bequeaths only to his male descendents, so the Promised Land passes from one Jewish father to his sons.

was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield.

However this was limited to the discharge of debts owed by the owner of the land.

The US Supreme Court, largely abolished the exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of ' quasi in rem ' in Shaffer v. Heitner, except in exceptional circumstances, which sometimes would arise while dealing with real property such as land, and when the owner of the land cannot be found.

In the law of almost every country, the state is the ultimate owner of all land under its jurisdiction, because it is the sovereign, or supreme lawmaking authority.

The owner of the land, Felicissima, a sympathetic lady of Rimini, bequeathed it to the small Christian community of mountain dwellers, recommending to them to remain always united.

Small plots of land were given to them for their own use, and they might retain the proceeds of crops they grew on these plots ; by this means it was possible for a slave to become the owner of another slave.

Apparently the origin of the name of the site was from Shemer the eponymous owner of the land that Omri purchased for two talents of silver ().

The word husmanskost stems from husman, meaning " house owner " ( without associated land ), and the term was originally used for most kinds of simple countryside food outside of towns.

If a person occupies land for the required period of time as set out in provincial limitation acts and, during that time, no legal action is taken to evict or in trespass, the ownership in the land goes from the legal owner to the squatter.

The legal owner would hold the land for the benefit of the original owner, and would be compelled to convey it back to him when requested.

While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.

Sargon the king prostrated himself before ( the god ) Dagan ( and ) made supplication to him ; ( and ) he ( Dagan ) gave him the upper land, namely Mari, Yarmuti, ( and ) Ebla, up to the Cedar Forest ( and ) up to the Silver Mountain ".

Furthermore Adam of Bremen himself compared the Sea with a belt stating that the Sea is named so because it stretches through the land as a belt ( Balticus, eo quod in modum baltei longo tractu per Scithicas regiones tendatur usque in Greciam ).

Some of the victorious fleet went in pursuit of him ; but Octavian himself visited Greece and Asia, and spent the winter at Samos ; though he was obliged to go for a short time to Brundisium to settle a mutiny and arrange for assignations of land.

Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.

Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedalus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus.

( daughter of 7th emperor Emperor Kōrei and identified as the emperor's aunt on the father's side ) acting as sibyl became possessed by a god, who identified himself as, and said that the land will be pacified if he were to be venerated.

At that point, Madero would declare himself provisional President of Mexico, and called for a general refusal to acknowledge the central government, restitution of land to villages and Indian communities, and freedom for political prisoners.

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

According to Rashi, the being was the guardian angel of Esau himself, sent to destroy Jacob before he could return to the land of Canaan.

Aside from the richest and most powerful of the dukes and the king himself, Lombard noblemen tended to live in cities ( unlike their Frankish counterparts ) and hold little more than twice as much in land as the merchant class ( a far cry from the provincial Frankish aristocrat who held a vast swathe of land hundreds of times larger than the nearest man beneath him ).

In 64, most of Rome was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome, which many Romans believed Nero himself had started in order to clear land for his planned palatial complex, the Domus Aurea.

According to Widsith and the Danish sources Offa successfully conquered the Myrgings, possibly a clan of Saxon origin, and incorporated their land into Angel or Danish lands, by slaying two Myrging princes in single combat and installing himself as their king.

He could also take it upon himself to annex Syria before it could possibly fall into the hands of a rival, but feared that attacking a land that formerly belonged to his master — which is forbidden in the Islamic principles he followed — could portray him as hypocritical and thus, unsuitable for leading the war against the Crusaders.

In the 1728 version of the poem, the goddess Dulness notes that " Time himself stands still at her command ,/ Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land " ( Dunciad 1728, i, 69 – 70 ).

Northumberland was furiously ambitious, and aimed to secure Protestant uniformity while making himself rich with land and money in the process.

However, the campaign was a failure, and on Gordian's eventual death Plotinus found himself abandoned in a hostile land, and only with difficulty found his way back to safety in Antioch.

In Tootsie ( 1982 ), Hoffman portrays Michael Dorsey, a struggling actor who finds himself dressing up as a woman to land a role on a soap opera.

Only some floor-plans remain for a large palace planned for himself on the new via Giulia in the rione of Regola, for which he was accumulating the land in his last years.

An Amorite named Abi-ramu or Abram was the father of a witness to a deed dated to the reign of Hammurabi's grandfather ; Ammi-Ditana, great-grandson of Hammurabi, still titled himself " king of the land of the Amorites ".

Offa also confirmed two charters of Æðelberht, and in 772 he grants land himself in Sussex, with Oswald, dux Suðsax, as a witness.

Hitler himself denounced the redistribution of land as " stupid ".

Andrianampoinimerina distinguished himself from other kings by codifying laws and supervising the building of dikes and trenches to increase the amount of arable land around his capital at Antananarivo in a successful bid to end the famines that had wracked Imerina for decades.

Cook's most southerly discovery of land lay on the temperate side of the 60th parallel, and he convinced himself that if land lay farther south it was practically inaccessible and of no economic value.