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.

Owner Peter Pocklington had explored moving the Oilers to Minnesota during the 1990s, and in 1998 Pocklington almost made a deal to sell the team to Leslie Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets of the NBA who would have moved the team to Houston, Texas.

In October 2006, team owner Leslie Alexander ( who also owns the NBA's Houston Rockets team ) announced he was selling the Comets, and longtime Head Coach Van Chancellor resigned in January 2007.

The team is owned by Williams Group Holdings ( Paula Madison, majority owner ) and Carla Christofferson, Kathy Goodman, and Lisa Leslie ( minority owners ).

Rockets owner Leslie Alexander first began to request a new arena in 1995, and attempted to release the Rockets from their lease at The Summit, which ran until 2003.

Although the bill was failed in the Texas House of Representatives, Rockets owner Leslie Alexander announced he would continue to study the possibility of constructing a new arena in downtown Houston, saying the 20-year old Summit arena was too outdated to be profitable.

Kenneth Zevo states that although Leslie loves his work, he is also too immature to be a good business owner and deal with the corporate world.

For the 2001 season, then owner Leslie Alexander ( owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets ), sold the franchise back to the Arena Football League.

Most noted among the well-to-do are Leslie Harrington, owner of the mill, and his spoiled son Rodney, the good-hearted doctor Matthew Swain and upstanding Seth Buswell, owner of the newspaper.

Song Dan Ping ( Leslie Cheung ) was an ambitious theatre actor and owner who built his dream magnificent playhouse from where he entertained and dazzled the theatre-loving populace with his adaptation of classics such as Romeo and Juliet and other tragic love stories.

Kevin Leslie Geddings, known on air as " Kevin Leslie " & also husband of WFOY owner Kris Phillips was sentenced on May 7, 2007 due to an October 2006 conviction of 5 counts of fraud when he served as the state lottery commissioner in North Carolina.

Sir Norman Leslie, the castle's owner, was host to King Edward I of England when he stayed there on 29 July 1296 during his triumphal march through Scotland following its conquest by him in 1296.

These were erected in 1834 by Hugh Fraser Leslie of Powis, the owner of an estate which formerly lay behind them.

* Andrea ( voiced by Leslie Carrara ): Streaky's owner.

He created, wrote and produced the short-lived sitcom Shaping Up in 1984, alongside Ken Estin ; the show starred Leslie Nielsen as a gym owner and ran for five episodes on ABC.

With his falling health and subsequent death, Leslie becomes the sole owner of his properties.

* February 20 – A second Unabomber bomb explodes at a Salt Lake City computer store, injuring the owner.

* U. S. Senator Thomas Kearns, Utah Mining magnate and owner of Salt Lake Tribune, an O ' Neill native

The current franchise dates from 1994, when Joe Buzas, a former major league player and the owner of the PCL Portland Beavers, moved the team to Salt Lake City.

In 1993, Portland Beavers owner Joe Buzas made a deal where the city would build a new ballpark on the site of historic Derks Field and Buzas would move his team to Salt Lake City in 1994.

* More than $ 400 million worth of silver ore was mined in Jupiter Peak, creating 23 millionaires, including U. S. Senator Thomas Kearns ( Utah ), an owner of the Silver King Coalition Mine, The Salt Lake Tribune and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad ; and George Hearst, father of William Randolf Hearst founder of the Hearst newspaper dynasty.

In 1979, team owner Sam Battistone moved the Jazz to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird's owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish the facts of the story.

Simon Bamberger, who was building his Salt Lake & Ogden Railroad line from Salt Lake City to Ogden, Utah, was vice president of Lake Park and a 25 % owner.

The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of USD $ 156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City.

The packaging consists of a jewellery box-style case containing a 3 " CD and a working television-shaped View-Master with a slide show of artwork from Hymen label owner Stefan Alt, AKA Salt.

The move of the Tigers prompted the owner of the Salt Lake Bees to move his team to Los Angeles for the 1926 season, where the team began play as the Hollywood Bees, but soon changed their name to the Hollywood Stars.

* William H. Prinsep ( 1794 – 1874 ), merchant, Palmer & Co., Carr, Tagore & Co., founder, Union Bank ( failed ), founder, Bengal Tea Association, founder, Bengal Coal Company, owner, Bengal Salt Company ( inherited from his brother George ), Sheriff, Fort William, Calcutta, amateur artist ( studied under George Chinnery ), retired to Hyde Park Place, London, secretary, Great Western Railway, South Devon Railway, one of seven sons of patriarch John Prinsep.

For part of the 1860s Calder held the monopoly on music supplies in at least Salt Lake City if not all of Utah, as owner of the Calder Music Store in Salt Lake City.