Civil Law Questions
Explore questions in the Civil Law category that you can ask Spark.E!
A purchase money security interest is perfected by attachment alone.
When parties form a contract, their agreement establishes the value of the object of their transaction, not only for the moment, but for several years in the future.
Dawn's stepson Tony tells Dawn that he is going to lock her in a closet for a week unless she gives him a check for $20,000. Dawn is old and feeble. If she gives Tony the check and then has second thoughts about having done so, she can.....
The physical dimensions of real property are generally easy to define.
Kerry is leaving the house and cannot find her cellphone. After a 30 minute search, she locates it in her bathroom drawer. Kerry's cellphone would be considered lost until it was found.
Property is the legal right to exclude others from resources that are originally possessed or are acquired without force, theft, or fraud.
In the property system, the state plans what people should do, and acquires and redistributes resources to them.
Securities are an example of intangible personal property.
Storing something in a storage warehouse or renting appliances from a rental store are examples of bailments.
Property helps generate prosperity by establishing the conditions necessary for capital formation.
Summary ejectment cases are required to be set for trial within...
The bailee in a bailment for the sole benefit of the bailor owes a slight duty of care while the object is in the bailee's possession.
If a donor transfers something to a donee without a mutual exchange of resources, the donor has given a gift to the donee.
Ownership by confusion arises when non-fungible goods are mixed together.
If one of the joint tenants in a joint tenancy dies, the remaining tenant becomes the sole owner of the entire resource.
The property interest is divided equally in both joint tenancy and tenancy in common.
If a copy of a juvenile summons: undisciplined/delinquent is left at the person's house, is this a valid service?
House-sitting would be an example of a bailment because you are in temporary possession of someone's house with the intention to return full possession to the owners upon their return.
Property is infinite, and its boundaries are free from any ambiguity
Private property is a system of law under which the state recognizes and enforces an individual's rights to acquire, possess, use, and transfer scarce resources.