Disseisin and Adverse Possession

Insanity and Demoniacal Possession

It lias scarcely been a matter of doubt that the Evangelists have recorded several cases of insanity. The best defined are those of the demoniac of Gadara, evidently an example of mania; and the bov brought to our Lord after the transfiguration, whose symptoms closely resemble those of epilepsy. These cases will not fail to bring to the minds of those conversant with the wards of a lunatic asyl...

The Effect of Adverse Possession to Part on a Future Australian Cadastre

In accord with modern cadastral principles, a comprehensive land information management system should ideally disclose the complete legal status of all land with the disclosure of all public and private rights and restrictions, including rights acquired under adverse possession. Recognizing trends to develop national spatial data sets, if a national cadastre founded upon these data sets is ever...

External Possession and Possessor Raising

External possession is a phenomenon where a nominal is syntactically encoded as a verbal dependent but semantically understood as the possessor of one of its co-arguments. While the general pattern is crosslinguistically very common, there is much variation in its precise syntax and semantics. In this chapter I review the classic analyses of external possession as possessor raising and possesso...

External Possession and Possessor Raising

Possession and the double object

This paper argues that double-object verbs decompose into two heads, an external-argument-selecting cause predicate (vCAUSE) and a prepositional element, PHAVE. Two primary types of argument are presented. First, a consideration of the well-known Oerhle’s generalization effects in English motivate such a decomposition, in combination with a consideration of idioms in ditransitive structures. Th...