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| Property | A thing, tangible or intangible that is subject to ownership and a group of related legal rights |
| Real Property | Land, buildings, and those things permanently affixed to them |
| Personal Property | Something that is either movable or intangible and the right to use such things |
| Intellectual Property | Purely intangible personal property that one cannot touch or move |
| Copyright | Protection for the expression of a creative work |
| Infringement | Unauthorized copying, scale, display, or performance of a work |
| Fair Use | The very limited use of copyrighted works by critics, researchers, news reporters, and educators |
| Trademark | A word, mark , symbol, or device that identifies a product of a particular manufacturer or merchant |
| Service Mark | A unique word, mark, or symbol that identifies a service as opposed to a product |
| Patent | The grant of the exclusive right to make, use, and sell a novel or new, non-obvious, useful product or process |
| Trade Secret | Commercially valuable information that the owner attempts to keep secret |
| Constructive delivery | A symbol or the subject matter of a gift is substituted in delivery |
| Accession | The right of an owner of property to an increase in that property |
| Lost Property | Property which the owner unknowingly leaves somewhere or accidentally drops |
| Mislaid Property | Property intentionally placed somewhere but then forgotten |
| Occupancy | Acquiring title by taking possession of personal property that belongs to no one else |
| Severalty | When one person owns all of the property involved |
| Co-ownership | When two or more persons have ownership rights in the same property |
| Rights of partition | Allows any co-worker to legally compel the division of the property among the co-owners |
| Right of survivorship | If one of the joint owners dies, the deceased co-owner's interest is divided equally among the remaining joint tenants |
| Tenancy in common | Share may be unequal and there is no right of survivorship |
| Community Property | A form of co-ownership between husband and wife |
| Tenancy by the entireties | Can only be entered into by married couples, carries the right of survivorship and one cannot sell or mortgage the subject property without the consent of the spouse. |
