ACCRETION – gradual increase in
land
ADJUDICATE – to make formal
decision
ADVERSE – preventing success
AGGRIEVED – feeling resentment at
having been unfairly treated
ALIENABLE – can be transferred to
new ownership
AMELIORATE – make better
APPELLATE COURT – deals with
applications for decisions to be
reversed
CHATTEL – property other than real
estate
COLLATERAL ATTACK - when a
separate and new lawsuit is filed to
challenge some aspect of an earlier
and separate case when an obvious
injustice or unconstitutional treatment
occurred in the earlier case.
CONSPICUOUS – standing out so as
to be clearly visible
CONTIGUOUS – sharing a common
border; touching
CONTROVERTIBLE - Open to
questioning; that which can be denied,
challenged, or disputed.
CONVEYANCE – process
transferring of property
DELINEATION – action indicating the
exact position of a border or boundary
DESTITUTE – not having basic needs
in life
DURESS – action done to someone to
do something against their will
EMANCIPATION – obtain economic
and social rights
ENCUMBRANCE – mortgage or
charge on property
ESTOPPEL - the principle which
precludes a person from asserting
something contrary to what is implied
by a previous action or statement of
that person or by a previous pertinent
judicial determination.
FIDUCIARY – involving trust
FICTITOUS – not real
GRATUITOUS – given or done free of
charge
- unjustified
IGNOBLE – not honorable
IMPUGN - challenge
IN REM – is a proceeding that takes
no notice of the owner of the property
but determines rights in the property
that are conclusive against all the
world
INALIENABLE – cant be taken away
INDEFEASIBLE – not capable of
for
being lost, annulled or overturned
IPSO FACTO – by the fact itself
LACHES – unreasonable delay in
making claim or assertion
LIENS - a right to keep possession of PROMULGATION – formal
property belonging to another person proclamation or declaration that a new
until a debt owed by that person is law is enacted after its final approval
discharged.
PROBATIVE – having the quality of
LITIGANT – a person involved in a proving something; affording proof or
lawsuit evidence
MILITATE – work against PURPORT – (verb) claim
MORTGAGE - a legal agreement by QUASI-PUBLIC PLACES – private
which a bank or other creditor lends properties but are accessible by the
money at interest in exchange for public
taking title of the debtor's property,
RECOMPENSE – make amends for
with the condition that the conveyance
loss or harm
of title becomes void upon the
payment of the debt. RESCISSION – cancellation
MUNIMENT – document or record REVERED – deep respect
OCEAN – Open Continuous Exclusive TANTAMOUNT – equivalent to
Adverse Notorious USURPER – a person who takes
ONEROUS – involving heavy position of power
obligations VOID AB INITIO – treated as invalid
PACTO DE RETRO – seller has the from the outset
right to repurchase the subject matter
or the property being sold
PERJURED – involving willfully told
untruths
PERPETUATE – to keep going
PRECLUDE – make impossible
PREDECESSORS IN INTEREST –
person who previously held the rights
or interests that are now held by
another
PREROGATIVE – right or privilege
exclusive to an individual or class
PROCURE – to obtain