The Law of Real Property Author:Henry Strong McCall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY. 1. Estates in real property. 2. Title to real property. 3. Common source of title. 4. English source of title.... more » 5. Titles from the Dutch government. 6. Dutch grants confirmed. 7. Common law adopted here. 8. English right of soil transferred. 9, 10. Eminent domain. 11. Eminent domsiin a necessity. 12. Who may hold lands. 13, 14. Who are citizens. 15. Married women. 16. Colonial naturalization. 17. U. S. naturalization. 18. Aliens how naturalized. 19. Persons born abroad. 20. Married women abroad have dower when. 21. Aliens may hold land when. 22. Alien devisees take lands when. 23. Special statute as to aliens. 24. Citizens forfeit title when. 25. Indians may hold in severalty. 26. Corporations take and hold when. 1. An estate in real property is the interest, or quantity of interest which a person has in lands, tenements and hereditaments. This may be an absolute ownership or a right to occupy and use for life or for a longer or shorter time. 2. A title to real property is denned by Sir Edward Coke to be, the means whereby the owner of lauds hath the just possession of his property. 3. The common source of title is the government, either of the State or of the United States, and upon the death -of the owner, intestate, without heirs, it escheats to the State. 4. By the English common law, the king was the feudal paramount proprietor and source of title to all land within his dominion, and it was considered that all the lands were held mediately or immediately from him. The original title to laud on this continent, as between the different European nations, was founded on the right of discovery and conquest. This title was not the absolute right to the ownership of th...« less