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TO ACQUIRE, descents, contracts. To make property one's own.
2. Title to property is acquired in two ways, by descent, (q.v.) and by purchase (q.v.). Acquisition by purchase, is either by, 1. Escheat. 2. Occupancy. 3. Prescription. 4. Forfeiture. 5. Alienation, which is either by deed or by matter of record. Things which cannot be sold, cannot be acquired.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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In a subsequent section, Greenfield pursues the specter of capitalism as it rises to haunt again, documenting the spread of fetishistic acquisitiveness beyond America into the arena of the global rich.

MAKE IT RAIN: Naomi Fry on Lauren Greenfield's "Generation Wealth"

Written in catchy rhyme and colorfully illustrated with strong expressive faces on the characters, "The True Spirit of Christmas" strikes to the heart of holiday acquisitiveness, often a substitute for the meaning of Christmas.

The True Spirit of Christmas

The acquisitiveness of the billionaire class extends to politics as well, with the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson allocating billions to their right wing slates and the candidates they support.

A growing band of billionaires tries to make noise in film biz: the one-percenters may own politics, but movies present a tougher challenge

It's one of avarice, acquisitiveness and a resistance to living within the financial bounds of elected office.

Greed And The Presidency

in exchange for a life that is morally hollow, lacking virtue, and without purpose when considered in terms of the human quest for an integrated and meaningful life" (59), and who eventually becomes "a manipulator, a sham expert, an amoral technician, a disengaged ghost, a person who is fragmented, a cultivator of acquisitiveness, and a destroyer of communities of virtue" (99).

The Character of the Manager: From Office Executive to Wise Steward

They need to protect their daughter again, this time from their wanton acquisitiveness.

Clintons' $elf-$ervice

I think her acquisitiveness was purely a reaction against a time of terror when she wasn't sure she could keep her kids eating hot dogs and wearing Levis.

The materialist in her bathtub

THERE'S NO DOUBT that our economy has been built upon acquisitiveness. Since the Second World War, incessant growth has been based on mass production; mass production has been based on creating and channeling demand; and demand has been based on the desire to have or own.

Ours is better than yours

We in the West don't know what material deprivation is because of pandemic, disordered acquisitiveness. I remember the joy when an angel cake or bag of cookies was produced as a treat after dinner.

Hoarding as a mortal sin

However, on a recent spin through the Freeview box I witnessed a TV show that both put things in perspective and the fear of god into me - the tsunami of acquisitiveness that is My Super Sweet 16.

paternity test; Bewildering birthday burden on battered bank accounts

The third chapter argues that Hamlet establishes a "thematic opposition between memorial oblativity and reifying acquisitiveness," which, in turn, "enables a critique of elective processes against which primogenitural monarchy is represented as providential" (70).

Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama: Economies of Vengeance,

Are our decisions based on self-centred criteria such human acquisitiveness and our fragile ego, or on how we take what we need without compromising the future of the world around us?

Time to let the heart be heard in wind debate? All too often, the views of those opposing planning applications are dismissed as too emotional. Here, Rev Dr John Harrison argues it is time for a rethink in how opposition is viewed