Chapter 17: Contemporary Property

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Nuisance

________ is an action for the use of anothers land in a manner that harms ones own.

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Private property

________ provides a basis for individuals to act independently of the state.

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law of real property

The ________ began in England as a system for maintaining the authority and power of the king and nobility.

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Private property

________ was at the core of the founders vision of a new society; it was critical in the Civil War, when a plantation- based, slave- owning South sought to defend its way of life; and it remains a foundation of the American understanding of what makes democracy work.

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To quote the relevant portions of the Fifth Amendment

"No person

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The same principle is made applicable to the states in the Fourteenth Amendment

"[N]or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or Property, without due Process of law."

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Trespass

__________ is an action brought by a landholder for another person’s entry on the land without a license to do so.

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Bill of Rights

When the _____________ was adopted in 1791, the critical trilogy of American law became “life, liberty, and property.”

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