PROPERTY

Attest means to testify or confirm that something is true, genuine, or authentic. Some common usages of the term “attest” in a legal sense include: 

Attestation is a kind of testimony or confirmation.

An attestation clause is a provision at the end of an instrument, especially a will, that is signed by witnesses and recites the formalities required to make the instrument effective. A formal attestation clause itself can serve as prima facie evidence of the facts within the instrument.

The attorney of record is the lawyer who appears in court or receives pleadings and other formal documents on a party's behalf. Also known as counsel of record.

Attractive nuisance is a dangerous condition on a landowner's property that may particularly attract children onto the land and pose a risk to their safety.

• lawsuits-court
• homeowners
• real-estate-rental-property

Attractive nuisance is a dangerous condition on a landowner's property that may particularly attract children onto the land and pose a risk to their safety. In tort law, the attractive-nuisance doctrine imposes a duty on property owners to treat trespassing children the same as an invitee, and as a result, must exercise

The augmented estate is the value of a decedent’s estate used when the surviving spouse chooses to take an elective share, rather than what was left by will.

An author is a person who creates, comes up with, or gives existence to something. Most people think of an author as an individual who wrote a paper, book, poem, letter, or any kind of literary work. If the work was made for hire, the employer or commissioning party is considered the author of the work.

• copyright law
• intellectual property

Avulsion refers to water quickly submerging land or moving land to another location. In most situations under state property law, land moved by avulsion continues to be the property of the owner of where the land originally was located. For example, a major hurricane may cause chunks of land to be dislodged from a person’s land beside a river, and in this case, the person would continue to own the dislodged land. The key aspect of avulsion is its rapid change.

A 'bailment' is defined as a non-ownership transfer of possession. Under English common law, the right to possess a thing is separate and distinct from owning the thing.