- Abatement
- Adverse possession
- Also known as "squatter's rights". If a person occupies land for a predetermined period of time as set out in the different provincial acts and no legal action is taken to evict or indicate to the person an act of trespass, the ownership in the land goes from the original owner to the squatter.
- Allodial
- Assignment
- Bailment
- Bequeath
- Bequest
- Bona fide purchaser for value without notice
- Bona vacantia
- Cestui que vie
- Chain of title
- Chattel
- Chattel mortgage
- Chose
- Chose in Action
- Chose in possession
- Clear title
- Colour of title
- Concurrent estate
- Conditional estate
- Condition Precedent
- Condition Subsequent
- Constructive delivery
- Constructive possession
- Constructive trust
- Contingent estate
- Convey
- Conveyance
- Corporeal hereditament
- Co-tenancy
- Curtesy
- Deed
- Defeasable interest
- Determinable limitation
- Detinue
- Devise
- Doctrine of Worthier title
- Dominant tenement
- Donatio Mortis Causa
- Dower
- Easement
- Eminent domain
- Encumbrance
- Encroachment
- Equity of redemption
- Escheat
- Escrow
- Estate
- Executor/executrix
- Fee simple
- Fee tail
- Feoffment
- Fertile octogenarian
- Fixture
- Foreclosure
- Freehold estate
- Future interest
- Gift
- Gift over
- Good title
- Grant
- Hereditament
- Incorporeal hereditament
- Intangible property
- Intestate/Intestacy
- Intestate succession
- Issue
- Joint tenancy
- Jus tertii
- Landlord
- Leashold
- Licence
- Lien
- Life in being
- Life estate
- Livery of seisin
- Living will
- Lost modern grant
- Mortgage
- Mortmain
- Nemo dat rule
- periodic tenancy
- Per stirpes
- Possession
- Posessory interest
- Possibility of reverter
- power of appointment
- Power of sale
- Primogeniture
- Property
- Pur autre vie
- Quia emptores
- English statute of 1290 that abolished subinfudation
- Quiet enjoyment
- Real Property
- Remainder
- Remainderman
- Replevin
- Restrain on alienation
- Restrictive Covenant
- Resulting trust
- Reversion
- Reverter
- Rule against perpetuities
- Rule in Shelley's case
- Rule in Andrews
- A rule for constructive gifts that allows for escaping the rule against perpetuities. If one member of a group satisfies a requirement for vesting at the time the gift takes effect then the class closes on whoever is alive at the time.
- Run with the land
- Seisin
- Severalty
- Severance
- Shifting interest
- Springing interest
- Statute of Uses
- Subinfudation
- Sublease
- Subtenant
- Survivorship
- Tenant
- Tenancy
- Tenancy in common
- Tenancy at sufferance
- Tenancy at will
- Tenament
- Tenure
- Torrens title
- Trover
- Trust
- Unities
- Use
- Usufruct
- Vested in interest
- Vested in possession
- Waste
- Will
- Words of limitation
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