legal title

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Scope note
The right to own a particular property, where that ownership is regularly evidenced and capable of recognition and enforcement in a court of law. The law typically considers the legal title as resting in the last party to whom it was transmitted by descent or by purchase through a regularly connected chain of transmission from the original source of title.
legal title
Accepted term: 18-Nov-2024