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Changes in Lot Number: When Does a Purchaser Have a Duty to Inquire? Image

Changes in Lot Number: When Does a Purchaser Have a Duty to Inquire?

Stewart E. Sterk

Block and lot indexes prevalent in New York City were designed to make title searches simpler than those necessary under the grantor-grantee index system prevalent in many other areas of the state and country. Suppose, however, block and lot numbers change over time. To what extent are purchasers on notice of deeds recorded under a block and lot number different from the one prevalent at the time of purchase?

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Constructive Trust Does Not Require Transfer In Reliance Failure to Obtain Subdivision Approval Does Not Make Title Unmarketable Accounting Necessary When Property Is Purchased With Wrongfully Appropriated Funds,br> Church Documents Establish That Synod Did Not Wrongfully Take Local Church's Property Allegations of Fraud Insufficient to Extend Statute of Limitations on Foreclosure Action Bona Fide Purchaser Prevails Over Mortgagee of Erroneously Discharged Mortgage

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Development

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Landonwner Entitled to Nonconforming Use Status Public Trust Claim Reinstated

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Landlord & Tenant Law

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Tenant Not Entitled to Recover Consequential Damages for Second Hand Smoke Tenant Failed to Establish Constructive or Actual Eviction Failure to Send Statutory Notice Subjects Apartment to Rent Stabilization Overcharge Claim Dismissed Because DHCR Had Primary Jurisdiction

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Purchaser Entitled to Return of Downpayment When Co-Op Failed to Consent

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The Madrid System Turns 30: The Pros and Cons of Using the Madrid Protocol in the United States and for U.S. Based Companies Image

The Madrid System Turns 30: The Pros and Cons of Using the Madrid Protocol in the United States and for U.S. Based Companies

Stacey C. Kalamaras

This summer, the Madrid System turned 30 years old, and as two more countries prepare to join the Madrid Protocol we look at how the Madrid System has grown as it enters full adulthood.

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Exploring the Nebulous Boundaries of Trade Dress

Nicole D. Galli

Now that we are in the digital age, questions have been raised about the trade dress of websites and apps.

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IP News

Howard Shire & Christine Weller

Penn State Files Trademark Lawsuit against Sports Beer Brewing Company Can OSU Trademark the Word "The"?

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Analysis of Warhol Art Fair Use Ruling

Robert W. Clarida & Robert J. Bernstein

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that a series of silkscreen paintings and prints by Andy Warhol based on a photograph of music legend Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith constituted a transformative fair use.

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Lawyers Win Contingency Fee Fight Against Estate of Blues Icon's Son Image

Lawyers Win Contingency Fee Fight Against Estate of Blues Icon's Son

Stan Soocher

There have been disputes over rights to the two existing photographs of blues icon Robert Johnson as well as over who was his rightful heir. The latest court decision involves a contingency fee agreement originally entered into by a law firm hired by Johnson's son, who died in 2015. The case offers an example of what rights counsel may gain from such an arrangement following the death of the signatory client.

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