properties (Meaning)

a special quality of something, a book or script purchased for publication or production, property consisting of land, buildings, crops, or other resources still attached to or within the land or improvements or fixtures permanently attached to the land or a structure on it, property held jointly by husband and wife, virtue sense 2, property acquired by either spouse during the course of a marriage that is subject to division upon divorce see also antenuptial agreement, property to which the owner has relinquished all rights, property (as a stock certificate or professional license) that derives value not from its intrinsic physical nature but from what it represents, property passing to a surviving spouse that qualifies for the marital deduction if the executor so elects providing that the spouse is entitled to receive income in payments made at least annually for life and that no one has a power to appoint any part of the property to any person other than the surviving spouse see also QTIP trust at trust, property owned or leased by tenants in common compare tenancy in common at tenancy, property belonging to a particular person, tracts of land with their component parts, one (such as a performer) who is under contract and whose work is especially valuable, an attribute common to all members of a class, something other than scenery or costumes that is used in a play or movie, property of a spouse that is not community property or marital property, an idea, invention, trade secret, process, program, data, formula, patent, copyright, or trademark or application, right, or registration relating thereto, property that has a tangible and corporeal existence and intrinsic economic value because of it, the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing, something owned or possessed, property acquired by a spouse before marriage or individually during marriage (as by gift or often by inheritance), property (as a vehicle) that is movable but not including crops or other resources still attached to land, a quality or trait belonging and especially peculiar to an individual or thing, property owned or used by more than one party, property (as proceeds) that a debtor acquires after the commencement of a bankruptcy case and that is usually considered part of the bankruptcy estate, an interest, benefit, right, or privilege in such property, something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, interest sense 1, possession sense 1e, property acquired after the perfection of a lien or security interest, property (as personal property or crops) that can be moved, property transferred to the estate of a decedent after execution of the will, an article or object used in a play or motion picture except painted scenery and costumes, such property acquired after the creation of a lien or security interest that is subject to the lien or becomes collateral for the security interest, a piece of real estate, an effect that an object has on another object or on the senses, real property in this entry, something to which a person or business has a legal title, property that derives from the work of the mind or intellect, something (as land, goods, or money) that is owned, property especially from employment acquired by either spouse after marriage that is deemed in states having a community property system to belong to both spouses as undivided one-half interests compare joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety at tenancy ownership in indivision at ownership, property that has been left in an unknown location involuntarily but through no one's fault