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Toxic Bones: The Burdens Of Discovering Human Remains In West Virginia's Abandoned And Unmarked Graves, J. William St. Clair, Robert Deal Dec 2020

Toxic Bones: The Burdens Of Discovering Human Remains In West Virginia's Abandoned And Unmarked Graves, J. William St. Clair, Robert Deal

West Virginia Law Review Online

This article pulls up and highlights a land use restriction, or financial burden, imposed upon West Virginia private real estate owners who inadvertently uncover human skeletal remains in unmarked graves on their property. In this state, those coming across human bones that historians and archaeologists eventually deem have no historical or archeological significance have a choice—pay the costs to have the bones removed and reinterred or cover the bones and use the property only as a cemetery in perpetuity. This burden becomes more acute when comparing West Virginia’s law to those of other states that require government officials, at public …


Populist Placemaking: Grounds For Open Government-Citizen Spatial Regulating Discourse, Michael N. Widener Dec 2018

Populist Placemaking: Grounds For Open Government-Citizen Spatial Regulating Discourse, Michael N. Widener

West Virginia Law Review

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A Taking Without Just Compensation? The Constitutionality Of Amortization Provisions For Nonconforming Uses, Julie R. Shank Sep 2006

A Taking Without Just Compensation? The Constitutionality Of Amortization Provisions For Nonconforming Uses, Julie R. Shank

West Virginia Law Review

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Property, Gerald Bobango Jan 1987

Property, Gerald Bobango

West Virginia Law Review

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Property, Michael Lee Keller Jan 1984

Property, Michael Lee Keller

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property--Recovery For Improvements Mistakenly Made On The Land Of Another, James R. Watson Feb 1970

Property--Recovery For Improvements Mistakenly Made On The Land Of Another, James R. Watson

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property--Fee Simple Determinables--Distinguishing Characteristics, James Alan Harris Jun 1969

Property--Fee Simple Determinables--Distinguishing Characteristics, James Alan Harris

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property--Prescriptive Rights--Extinguishment By Conveyance Of The Servient Estate To A Purchaser Without Notice, Stephen Lewis Atkinson Dec 1968

Property--Prescriptive Rights--Extinguishment By Conveyance Of The Servient Estate To A Purchaser Without Notice, Stephen Lewis Atkinson

West Virginia Law Review

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Divorce--Sale Of Property By Court Order, Thomas Mckendree Chattin Jr., F. Richard Hall, John Woodville Hatcher Jr. Feb 1968

Divorce--Sale Of Property By Court Order, Thomas Mckendree Chattin Jr., F. Richard Hall, John Woodville Hatcher Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property--Effects Of Alteration Of Recordable Instruments, Robert Brand Stone Dec 1966

Property--Effects Of Alteration Of Recordable Instruments, Robert Brand Stone

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Wills--Equitable Conversion, Robert Willis Walker Jun 1965

Wills--Equitable Conversion, Robert Willis Walker

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property--Cancellation Of Note At Payee's Death Not Testamentary Gift, Ralph Judy Bean Jr. Dec 1964

Property--Cancellation Of Note At Payee's Death Not Testamentary Gift, Ralph Judy Bean Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Wills--Devise Of Specific Portion Of Property Held In Contenancy, Richard Marion Alker Dec 1963

Wills--Devise Of Specific Portion Of Property Held In Contenancy, Richard Marion Alker

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Boyd Lee Warner Ii Dec 1963

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Boyd Lee Warner Ii

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Frank Thomas Graff Jr. Apr 1963

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Frank Thomas Graff Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Abstracts Of Recent Cases, William Erwin Barr Apr 1962

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, William Erwin Barr

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Surviving Oddity: The Inter Vivos Branch Of The Doctrine Of Worthier, Charles Harold Haden Ii Feb 1961

A Surviving Oddity: The Inter Vivos Branch Of The Doctrine Of Worthier, Charles Harold Haden Ii

West Virginia Law Review

The scope of this writing is to examine the status of the doctrine of worthier title in relation to inter vivos conveyances of real and personal property in West Virginia. This, it is believed, should be of importance both to the general practitioner engaged in frequent conveyances of real property and in certification of titles, and also to the estate planner who chooses the trust deed as a vehicle of partial or complete disposition of a client's possessions.


Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Aaron David Trub Dec 1960

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, Aaron David Trub

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Restrictive Covenants--Right To Compensation In Eminent Domain Proceedings, R. M. Jun 1957

Restrictive Covenants--Right To Compensation In Eminent Domain Proceedings, R. M.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Eminent Domain--Obsolete Buildings--Proof Of Value, J. W. B. Feb 1948

Eminent Domain--Obsolete Buildings--Proof Of Value, J. W. B.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Landowner Versus The Airport, I. Martin Leavitt Jun 1947

The Landowner Versus The Airport, I. Martin Leavitt

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The West Virginia Law Of Forfeited And Delinquent Lands, George G. Bailey Jun 1947

The West Virginia Law Of Forfeited And Delinquent Lands, George G. Bailey

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equity--Removal Of Cloud On Title--Right To Bring Suit When Defendant Has Possession, K. K. H. Jun 1947

Equity--Removal Of Cloud On Title--Right To Bring Suit When Defendant Has Possession, K. K. H.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mines And Minerals--Leases--Covenant To Pay Minimum Annual Royalty For Term, J. H. Jun 1947

Mines And Minerals--Leases--Covenant To Pay Minimum Annual Royalty For Term, J. H.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxation--Exemptions--Income-Producing Real Property Of Charity, M. D. B. Jr. Dec 1946

Taxation--Exemptions--Income-Producing Real Property Of Charity, M. D. B. Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxation--Receipt Of Income--Satisfaction Of Judgment After Assignment As Income To Assignor, R. F. M. Dec 1946

Taxation--Receipt Of Income--Satisfaction Of Judgment After Assignment As Income To Assignor, R. F. M.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Deeds--Construction--Where Not Effective Until The Future, W. J. C. Feb 1941

Deeds--Construction--Where Not Effective Until The Future, W. J. C.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Detinue--Requirement That Property Be Of Actual Value--Alternate Judgment As Controlling Element In Value Requirement, W. E. N. Jun 1939

Detinue--Requirement That Property Be Of Actual Value--Alternate Judgment As Controlling Element In Value Requirement, W. E. N.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Modern Tendency Toward The Protection Of The Aesthetic, V. V. C. Dec 1937

Modern Tendency Toward The Protection Of The Aesthetic, V. V. C.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Oil And Gas--Damages For Wrongful Geophysical Exploration, Stephen Ailes Dec 1934

Oil And Gas--Damages For Wrongful Geophysical Exploration, Stephen Ailes

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.