Friday, June 10 Immovables - Property which, from its nature, destination, or the object to which it i s applied, cannot move

itself or be removed. Homestead - The home place -- the place where the home is; it is the home the house and the adjoining land where the head of the family dwells. Landed Estate - Ordinarily means an interest in and pertaining to lands. A person holding such an estate is termed a landed proprietor, and it is immaterial whether the lands are improved or not. Mortgage - a conveyance of real estate or assignment of personal property, without parting with the possession in either case, by way of hypothecation as security for the performance of some act, usually the payment of money. Movables - such subjects of property as attend a mans person wherever he goes, in contradiction to things immovable; by their nature things movable may be carried from one place to another, whether they move themselves, as cattle, or cannot be rewarded without an extraneous power, as inanimate things. Improvement - an amelioration in the condition of real or personal property effected by the expenditure of labor or money for the purpose of rendering it useful for other purposes than those for which it was originally used, or more useful for the same purposes; it includes repairs or addition to buildings, and the erection of fences, barns, etc. Hereditaments - things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heirlooms, and certain furniture which, by custom may descend to the heir together with the land. Chose in action - a right to receive or recover a debt, or money, or damages for breach of contract, or for a tort connected with a contract, but which cannot be enforced with legal action Color of Title - as apparent title to land founded upon a written instrument, such as a deed, levy of execution, decree of court, or the like, it has the resemblance or appearance of title, legal or equitable, but which in fact is no title. - A writing upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do so , either from a want of title in the person making it, or from the defective conveyance used; - A title that is imperfect, but not so obviously so that it would be apparent to one not skilled in the law

Color of title and claim of right are not synonymous; claim of right does not necessarily include color of title; to constitute color of title, there must be a paper title; but claim of right may rest wholly in parol.

Eminent Domain - the superior right of property subsisting in a sovereignty, by which private property may in certain cases be take or its use controlled for the public benefit, without regard to the wishes of the owner. Fee Simple - it is the largest possible estate which a man can have, being an absolute estate. It is where lands are given to a man and to his heirs absolutely, without any end or limitation put to the estate. Fee-tail - an inheritable estate which can descend to certain classes of heirs only. It is necessary that they should be heirs of the body of the ancestor, and these are proper words of limitation. Finder - one who lawfully comes to the possession of anothers personal property, which was then lost. The finder of the lost property at common law had a valid claim to the same against all the world except the true owner. Gift -

a voluntary conveyance or transfer of property; that is, one not founded on the consideration of money or blood.

Incumbrance - any right to, or interest in, land which may subsist in third persons, to the diminution of the value of the estate of the tenant, but consistently with the passing of the fee by the conveyance. Lien - a hold or claim which one person has upon th e property of another as a security for some debt or charge. - The right which one person possesses, in certain cases, of detaining property placed in his possession belonging to another, until some demand which the former has be (sic) satisfied.