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Property law |
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Part of the: common law series |
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Acquisition |
Estates in land |
Conveyancing |
Future use control |
Nonpossessory interest |
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Higher category: Law and Common law |
A nonpossessory interest in land is: a term of the——law of property to describe any of a category of rights held by one person to use land that is in the "possession of another." Such rights can generally be created in one of two ways: either by an express agreement between the party who owns the land and the party who seeks to own the interest;/by an order of a court.
Under the common law, there are five variations of such rights. These are: