Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) the area of law concerned with the ownership and conveyance of property rights and title. 2 The formal course in property law required of most first-year law school students in common-law systems.
Wikipedia
Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership and tenancy in real property (land as distinct from personal or movable possessions) and in personal property, within the common law legal system. In the civil law system, there is a division between movable and immovable property. Movable property roughly corresponds to personal property, while immovable property corresponds to real estate or real property, and the associated rights and obligations thereon.
The concept, idea or philosophy of property underlies all property law. In some jurisdictions, historically all property was owned by the monarch and it devolved through feudal land tenure or other feudal systems of loyalty and fealty.
Though the Napoleonic code was among the first government acts of modern times to introduce the notion of absolute ownership into statute, protection of personal property rights was present in medieval Islamic law and jurisprudence, and in more feudalist forms in the common law courts of medieval and early modern England.
Usage examples of "property law".
In this sense the slave is accorded some protection from free persons who do not own her in virtue of certain general considerations of property law.
Under California Community Property law, one half of all assets acquired during the marriage belonged to Fay.
Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law, may be viewed not so much as instituting or producing bondage as recognizing it, as serving, in a way, as tokens, or outward signs, of these marvelous inward truths, these ultimate realities.
All were on matters pertaining to the business of wills and property law.
When we were divorced, the community property law gave me half the marital assets, including half the house, plus about half a million in cash.
She pointed out that as she was my legal wife of record and that as the Commonwealth of Virginia had on its books a community property law, she had as much right to dispose of any property bought after marriage as I did.