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Attorney-in-fact
Attorney-in-fact A competent and disinterested person who is authorized by another person to act in his or her place.
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Competent
Legal ability to make decisions and enter into contracts.
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Attorn
To agree to recognize a new owner of a property and to pay him-her rent.
Attorney general
The chief law officer of the federal or state government, who appears for the people in criminal court.
Attorney's opinion of title
An abstract of title that an attorney has examined and has certified to be, in his or her opinion, an accurate statement of the facts concerning the property ownership.
Attorneys' fees
Attorneys to be paid by one or both parties in case of litigation.
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Assumption of mortgage
An obligation undertaken by the purchaser of property to be personally liable for payment of an existing mortgage.
Attached homes
A home that has one or more common walls adjoining another home.
Attachment
Seizure of property by court order, usually done in a pending law suit to make property available in case of judgment.
Attorn
To agree to recognize a new owner of a property and to pay him-her rent.
Attorney general
The chief law officer of the federal or state government, who appears for the people in criminal court.
Attorney-in-fact
Attorneys' fees
Attorneys to be paid by one or both parties in case of litigation.
Attorney's opinion of title
An abstract of title that an attorney has examined and has certified to be, in his or her opinion, an accurate statement of the facts concerning the property ownership.
Attractive nuisance doctrine
An owner has a duty to reasonably protect children from injury when his or her property is likely to attract children.
Auction
The selling of any property, in public by a licensed auctioneer, who offers the property for sale, starting at a price possibly much below its value, and endeavours to persuade those present to make successively increased bids until it is knocked down to the highest bidder.
Auctioneer
One who is licenced to sell or offer for sale real estate where people become purchasers by competing against each other.
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