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abandoned property

n. (context legal English) Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner has intentionally given up all dominion and control over the property, with no intent of returning to or recovering the property.

Usage examples of "abandoned property".

Obviously enthused by the prospect of a quick, hefty commission from the sale of the town's abandoned property.

The entrance to the abandoned property had been blocked by bright orange plastic cones and a sign mounted on a sawhorse designating the entire area as a crime scene.

As I said before, there was abandoned property as far in as my own neighborhood, not just in the West End.

Technically, they are abandoned property themselves, and they certainly can’.

Technically, they are abandoned property themselves, and they certainly cant own property.

Either way, the new hallways or the abandoned property soon became thoroughfares in their own right.

She would have made a mistake, or else been declared abandoned property and destroyed.

The model helicopter races toward the textile mill at the end of the street and disappears over the rooftop of the abandoned property.

Almost forty years after the fact, the man wanted to buy the abandoned property, which remained behind fences, a wild and implausible place in a once-suburban neighborhood that was going rapidly to seed.

Within hours of leaving camp, the scouts began running across destroyed and abandoned property.