Legal Glossary (Legal Word of the Day)
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A real estate term where a person takes wrongful possession of land from the rightful owner for a certain period of time and gains legal title to that land.


Agent – a person (or entity) that acts on behalf of another person (or entity) with a third party (-ies)


An alien is a person who is not a citizen or native of the country in which he or she lives.


a transaction where the parties involved act independently and are otherwise unrelated to each other.


a debt which is overdue because of a missed payment(-s)


the threat (or use) of force on another that causes that person to have a reasonable apprehension of imminent offensive or harmful contact



the transfer of contract rights by one party – the assignor – to another party – the assignee