As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.

For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

Of greater interest is a question as to whether movable property was assessed according to its location or ownership.

Another question that was asked of the assessors was whether they favored the assessment of movable property at its location or at the residence of the owner.

There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.

It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.

But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.

In rejecting any claim to the value of the slave property, Palfrey was giving up close to $7,000.

One of the vexatious problems to first confront President Kennedy was the property lying just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.

Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave., Providence, and which was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95.

Official reasoning: the bill was a `` wanton invasion of basic property rights ''.

That kind of poverty was regarded as the exclusive property of the East, which created depressions with their stock markets and their congested populations and their greedy centralization of industries, protected by discriminatory freight rates.

Recovering the property was much less important ''.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

It held that slavery in the territories was to be allowed as a property right to any settler, even where the majority opposed slavery.

The transfer of the property of the 4th Army ( except for part of the property of the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 23rd Motor Rifle Division captured by Armenian armed formations in 1992 during the regiment's withdrawal from Stepanakert ) and the 49th arsenal was completed in 1992.

Only paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences, where one man's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy.

Lawson's financial arrangements remain mysterious to this day, and in later years he seems to have owned little property, moving from city to city as a guest of his farflung acolytes.

Despite a general selling of state property and contrary to neoliberal prescriptions, the regime retained the lucrative state owned mining company CODELCO which stands for about 30 % of government income.

In 2005, a reassessment of residential property values resulted in a disproportionate number of houses owned by non-affluent people jumping in value relative to other houses, with hundreds having their property tax increased by over 100 %; this forced many homeowners in Cambridge to move elsewhere.

The pater familias owned all the family and its property ( including slaves ); the pater enforced matters involving interference with any property.

Shortly after his arrival, Vermont's Assembly passed the Banishment Act, a sweeping measure allowing for the confiscation and auction by the republic of property owned by known Tories.

Astor's family owned Scottish estates in the area and a fellow Old Etonian Robert Fletcher had a property on the island.

By 1789, they owned one-third of the plantation property and one-quarter of the slaves of Saint-Domingue.

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.

In law, an heir is a person who is entitled to receive a share of the decedent's ( the person who died ) property, subject to the rules of inheritance in the jurisdiction where the decedent died or owned property at the time of death.

Although he owned much more land and slaves and speculated in property, he was rarely on-site to oversee the operations.

In 1931, Universal chief Carl Laemmle, Jr. offered Whale his choice of any property the studio owned.

The property used to be owned by Thomas C. MacCready in the late 19th century, and after three generations of family, Douglas, Lynn, and Willis MacCready donated the land to Michigan State University in 2001.

Most or all of the property in the new development ( named Morningside ) is owned by associates of Bakker rather than by Bakker himself.

Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).

" Although Muslims, as well as Jews and Eastern Christians, had virtually no rights in the countryside, where they were essentially the property of the crusader lord who owned the land, tolerance for other faiths was in general higher than that found elsewhere in the Middle East.

The property is owned by the monarch as part of the Duchy of Lancaster holdings, but is administered by Harrogate Borough Council.

It was owned by Glastonbury Abbey and the property was sold in 1289 to a local landowner.

In some countries, Mormon and some phrases including the term are registered trademarks owned by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. ( a holding company for the LDS Church's intellectual property ).

In Cherokee and other matrilineal cultures, wives owned the family property.