buying and selling dormant titles

buying and selling dormant titles
A particular form of maintenance which was prohibited by an English statute in 1541. In some jurisdictions such transactions are prohibited by the common law. In others, statutes forbid the transfer to a stranger of the title to land in adverse possession of another. 14 Am J2d Champ § 11.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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