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presumed dereliction :<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. The doctrine that a thing is presumed to have been abandoned when it so appears by acts or circumstances, as when it is thrown away in any public place where it cannot be taken up, or where another is suffered to possess it without contradiction, or where possessory acts have long been abstained from. Rhodes v Whitehead<\/em>, 27 Tex 304<\/span>. <\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

dereliction<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. The state of a building that is run-down and dilapidated. <\/span><\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Abandonment of property; abandoned property. 56 Am J1st Wat \u00a7 476<\/span>. <\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

derelict<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Forsaken; abandoned; cast away <\/span><\/strong><derelict property><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. (Of a building) in bad condition from long disuse; rundown and dilapidated.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Abandoned; deserted; uninhabited.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[3]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

dilapidation<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Gradual ruin or decay through misuse or neglect; especially damage to a building resulting from acts of either commission or omission. * A dilapidation may give rise to liability if it constitutes and act of waste, a breach of contract, or a statutory violation. <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 dilapidate<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, vb<\/em>. \u2013 dilapidator<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, n<\/em>.<\/span>[2]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

res derelicta<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. A thing thrown away or forsaken by its owner; abandoned property.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1.Abandoned property; property from which the mind has withdrawn affection, and which has thus fallen back into the natural state of res nullius<\/em>, the property of no one, and is again susceptible of becoming the property of the occupant. Rhodes v Whitehead<\/em>, 27 Tex 304<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Abandoned property \u2013 the literal translation of the term is \u201cderelict thing\u201d (i.e. derelict property).\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[3]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

res nullius<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. [Latin: \u201cthing of no one\u201d] A thing that belongs to no one; an ownerless chattel.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. The property of no one.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from John George Phillimore’s Private Law Among the Romans<\/a><\/em> (1863):<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cRes nullius<\/em>. Such as belonged to the first occupier. They are of two kinds. Such as never have belonged to anyone, and such as have ceased to belong to the former owner.<\/span>\u201d \u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>[4]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/a>with<\/b><\/a><\/em> Pronunciations<\/b><\/a><\/em> Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0 Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Assistant<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[4]:<\/span><\/strong> John George Phillimore, Private Law Among the Romans<\/a> 18 (1863)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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