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title of right

title of right. A court-issued decree creating, transferring, or extinguishing rights. • Examples include a decree of divorce or judicial separation, an adjudication of bankruptcy, a discharge in bankruptcy, a decree of foreclosure against a mortgagor, an order appointing or removing a trustee, and a grant of letters of administration. In all the examples listed, […]

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equitable title

A title that indicates a beneficial interest in property and that gives the holder the right to acquire formal legal title. • Before the Statute of Uses (1536), an equitable title was enforceable only in a court of chancery, not of law. Cf. legal title. [Cases: Vendor and Purchaser 54. C.J.S. Vendor and Purchaser §§

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moral right

moral right. (usu. pl.) Copyright. The right of an author or artist, based on natural-law principles, to guarantee the integrity of a creation despite any copyright or property-law right of its owner. • Moral rights include rights of (1) attribution (also termed “paternity”): the right to be given credit and to claim credit for a

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