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  2. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property are categories of the common law of property which deals with personal property or chattel which has left the possession of its rightful owner without having directly entered the possession of another person. Property can be considered lost, mislaid, or abandoned depending on the circumstances ...

  3. Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain - Wikipedia

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    Advertisement for the roofing balustrade and urns from the demolished Trentham Hall. The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain was the result of a change in social conditions: many country houses of varying architectural merit were demolished by their owners. Collectively termed by several authors "the lost houses", the ...

  4. An abandoned 16,000-square-foot mansion in the English ... - AOL

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    Blackborough House is a crumbling, abandoned mansion located in Devon, England. The home is currently on sale for around $500,000, or £400,000, but is in need of a major renovation. Despite its ...

  5. Mentmore Towers - Wikipedia

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    Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, [1] [2] designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th ...

  6. English property law - Wikipedia

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    Land law, or the law of "real" property, is the most significant area of property law that is typically compulsory on university courses. Although capital, often held in corporations and trusts, has displaced land as the dominant repository of social wealth, land law still determines the quality and cost of people's home life, where businesses and industry can be run, and where agriculture ...

  7. Rothschild properties in the home counties - Wikipedia

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    Rothschild properties in the home counties. Waddesdon Manor, the north entrance facade. In the 19th century members of the English Rothschild family bought and built many country houses in the home counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of the Vale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known ...

  8. Prefabs in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Prefabs ( prefabricated homes) were a major part of the delivery plan to address the United Kingdom's post–World War II housing shortage. They were envisaged by war-time prime minister Winston Churchill in March 1944, and legally outlined in the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944 . Taking the details of the public housing plan from ...

  9. Unowned property - Wikipedia

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    Unowned property includes tangible, physical things that are capable of being reduced to being property owned by a person but are not owned by anyone. Bona vacantia (Latin for "ownerless goods") is a legal concept associated with the unowned property, which exists in various jurisdictions, with a consequently varying application, but with origins mostly in English law.

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