Blackacre


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Blackacre

A fictitious designation that legal writers use to describe a piece of land.

The term Blackacre is often used in comparison with Whiteacre in order to distinguish one parcel of land from another.

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example, if O has conveyed Blackacre "to A for life then to
CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST-INFECTED VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIVES AND A CURE
Any tangible object, Blackacre for example, will generate value on multiple dimensions, each of which might be treated as a separate intangible "thing" owned, in law or in fact, by separate parties and with their boundaries imperfectly defined and enforced.
A COASEAN APPROACH TO COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
(Whether A really owned Blackacre doesn't matter, so long as B occupied it openly and notoriously for a long enough time.)
PRECEDENT AND THE SEMBLANCE OF LAW
Two people cannot both be complete owners of the same thing: if Amy owns Blackacre, then Bob does not, and vice versa.
The essential structure of property law
Marsh, Sometimes Blackacre Is a Widget: Rethinking Commercial Real Estate Contract Remedies, 88 NEB.
Limiting the collective right to exclude
at 1704 ("When 01 owns Blackacre, the exclusion strategy for delineating her rights, implemented through devices like the tort of trespass, protects a range of actions Al, A2, A3, ..., without the law's needing to specify these actions.
Thick marks, thin marks
in funds to complete the purchase of Blackacre, there is authority
Equitable compensation for breach of trust: off Target
In 2000, John and Mary Doe, as joint tenants bought Blackacre, a parcel of New Hampshire residential real property, for $300,000.
The NH Legislature's common-sense change to tax law: HB 1656 once again allows real estate owners to protect their property from claims by creditors
The series has led to Lenny bringing out album, New Millennium Blues, with his Blackacre Road Band.
I always wanted to sing, but my mum said 'stick to one job' MARION MCMULLEN FINDS OUT WHY SIR LENNY HENRY IS HAPPIEST WHEN SINGING THE BLUES
The series has led to Lenny bringing out an album, New Millennium Blues, with his Blackacre Road Band.
I always wanted to sing, but my mum said 'stick to one job' MARION MCMULLEN FINDS OUT WHY SIR LENNY HENRY IS HAPPIEST WHEN SINGING THE BLUES
Dan Wood, who runs Blackacre Farm in Somerset, has launched a campaign to expose the reality of factory farming.
You think free range hens live like this... ...but they are more likely to live like this; EXCLUSIVE

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