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.

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.

Some " unfree " gladiators bequeathed money and personal property to wives and children, possibly via a sympathetic owner or familia ; some had their own slaves and gave them their freedom.

He became part owner, chief editor, and an active contributor to the literary journal Magazin für Literatur, where he hoped to find a readership sympathetic to his philosophy.

David Merlin ( David Niven ), the playboy son of the store's owner, J. B. Merlin ( Charles Coburn ), is sympathetic to the " unwed mother " and arranges for her to get her job back.

After nearly 30 years out of feature films, he returned to perform character roles, including the sympathetic Walley World theme park founder Roy Walley in National Lampoon's Vacation, and Duncan's Toy Chest toy store owner Mr. Duncan in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

In the 1941 Sergeant York, he played a sympathetic preacher and dry goods store owner who advised the title character played by Gary Cooper.

A large plantation owner, he was very sympathetic to the Confederate cause.

With the support of a sympathetic holy man and the curator of the dwarf bread museum ( owner of an oven big enough to fit a golem ), they succeeded in building and animating a king.

The sixty or seventy Separatists in Gainsborough were allowed to meet in secret in Gainsborough Old Hall by the Hall's sympathetic owner Sir William Hickman.

Stacey's original Lotus VI was purchased from its owner by the Stacey Family and underwent complete, but sympathetic restoration in the hands of Stacey's schoolfriend, VSCC, Bentley Drivers Club and Historic Grand Prix Drivers Association racer, Ian Bentall who had originally helped construct the car.

The Hall's owner, Alexander Redmond, was known to be sympathetic to the rebels.

* Isaac Hayes as Arnel, a bar owner who is sympathetic to DJay's aspirations.

The feminine form is ( Hebrew, Arabic ) signifying " lady, mistress, owner ( female ), wife ".

By some Shakespearian commentators Pembroke has been identified with the " Mr W. H ." referred to as " the onlie begetter " of Shakespeare's sonnets in the dedication by Thomas Thorpe, the owner of the published manuscript, while his mistress, Mary Fitton, has been identified with the " dark lady " of the sonnets.

Cat poses as a lady of loose morals and confronts town boss Sir Harry Percival ( Reginald Denny ), owner of the Wolf City Development Corporation.

Starr was in the process of divorcing her husband, club owner Carroll Glorioso, and Long was married to the state's first lady, known colloquially as Miz Blanche.

The black lady of Larkhall was the wife of Captain McNeil, then owner of Broomhill House.

The plot tells the story of a Chinese family, headed by Tan Ah Teck-the owner of a mini-mart and his family-housewife Dolly and children Ronnie, Paul and Denise along with their neighbours, namely Daisy, a lady of Indian descent and her brother, Michael ( played by Rajiv Dhawn ) and the married Malay couple Rosnah and Yusof, all living in an apartment building.

* Milvia: The little old lady is the owner of the Antique Shop in Kolyma, which she inherited from her previous husband.

The Quaker, who was part owner of some fishing nets in the river, invited him to spend a few days at his house ; and while there he heard from Alan that a young lady had called to warn him that his friend was in considerable danger, and to urge that he should at once return to Edinburgh.

A more romantic quaich had a double glass bottom in which was kept a lock of hair so that the owner could drink from his quaich to his lady love, and, in 1589, King James VI of Scotland gave Anne of Denmark a quaich or " loving cup " as a wedding gift.

In the episode, Homer and his wife Marge discover that convenience store owner Apu is having an affair with the Squishee delivery lady working in his store.

Handley's Rock was bequeathed as public land by its owner, and has remained open to public despite neighboring residents ' complaints of noise and fire danger.

The current house dates from the 17th century, and was bequeathed by its last owner, the hon.

Archibald, owner and editor of The Bulletin magazine, who bequeathed funds to have it built.

The former owner, Duke Albert Casimir of Saxe-Cieszyn, bequeathed the town to Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria ( 1822 ), who in turn sold it to the Cracovian Senator and MP from Chrzanów Jan Mieroszewski.

In 1922 the palazzo was bequeathed to the State by its last owner and saviour Baron Giorgio Franchetti who had acquired it in 1894.

His house in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles was designed by Bernard Maybeck and was later bequeathed by a subsequent owner to the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The contents of the home were bequeathed by the plantation owner to Mr. Biggs ’ grandmother, who was a slave.

Fenton House is a 17th century merchant's house in Hampstead in North London which belongs to the National Trust, bequeathed to them in 1952 by Lady Binning, its last owner and resident.

The last owner was Marie Countess of Nesselrode who died unmarried in 1920 and bequeathed the whole estate to the Rheinische Ritterschaft.

The Vyne was bequeathed by its final Chute owner, Sir Charles Chute, to the National Trust in 1958.

In 1983, the last private owner of Montpelier, Marion duPont Scott, bequeathed the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.