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BUS Ch 14
Law for Business Chapter 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Property | Anything that may be owned |
| Personal property | Movable property; interests less than complete ownership in land or rights to money |
| Two classes of personal property | 1. Tangible 2. Intangible |
| Tangible personal property | Personal property that can be seen, touched, and possessed |
| Intangible personal property | Evidences of ownership of rights or value |
| Methods of acquiring personal property | Purchase, possession, will, descent, gift, accession, confusion, and creation |
| Purchase | Ownership by payment |
| Intestate | A person dies without leaving a will |
| Gift | Transfer without consideration |
| Donor | Person who makes a gift |
| Donee | Person who receives a gift |
| Accession | Adding property of another |
| Confusion | Inseparable mixing of goods of different owners |
| Creation | Bringing property into being |
| Intellectual property | Property produced by human innovation and creativity |
| Patents | Absolute title to invention for fourteen or twenty years |
| Copyrights | Exclusive rights given to author of songs, books, and compositions |
| Trademarks | Word, symbol, or device, or combination of them used to identify and distinguish the source of goods |
| Trade secrets | a. Information b. With economic value c. Not generally known d. The subject of efforts to keep them secret |
| Abandon | Discard with no intention to reclaim |