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The crime of arson cannot be committed by property owners burning their own property because you always have the right to dispose of your own property.

Entrapment protects a person against criminal charges and prosecution when:

A gift is a voluntary transfer of ownership without consideration given.

The ways that we studied for a person to  acquire personal property include all the following except:

Real property may be owned by more than one person, called concurrent ownership.  One type of concurrent ownership is a  tenancy in common or as tenants in common.  In this type ownership if one of the owners dies the property belongs to ______________ . 

The two major classifications of crimes that we discussed are:

We discussed the way in which a  person can own or hold title to property.  One type of title is ______________ which is the highest, best and most complete type of ownership, including the right to determine what happens to the property after the owner’s death. 

The case example used to describe a landowner’s liability toward trespassers is the case of ________________________ .

The purpose of tort law is to provide remedies for violation of a person’s protected interests by awarding damages to injured parties and make that injured party whole again.

A jury verdict of “Not Guilty” is the same as saying that the jury found the defendant innocent.