Sentence examples for deemed property from inspiring English sources

For the teenage Mary, the shock of being openly deemed property after having experienced personal liberty in the North and overseas must have been disturbing.

If such an office was not deemed property within the meaning of that Amendment, that was an end of the case here.

And a right of property should be deemed property, unless we mean to play with words, and regard form rather than substance.

Beginning with President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1 , 1863 which liberated all slaves residing in rebel states or territories, the southern states' social ecology had begun to unravel, and southern whites faced a situation in which the black Americans once deemed property were now citizens equal in the eyes of the law.

Corrupt officials deem properties "derelict" while secretly allocating them to friendly developers.

Your lawyer advises you that the funds in your pre-marital accounts could be deemed "marital property" (or "community property," if you live in one of the nine community property states, i.e., Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin) and subject to distribution upon divorce.

Once accepted, all gifts are deemed the property of Princeton University.

This programme seeks to strengthen ties with former Soviet republics that Russia once deemed its property.

Even though environmental health officers deemed the property unfit to live in and issued a prohibition order on the landlord preventing the flat from being re-let, the landlord stalled for months before returning Chek's deposit and advance rent.

At about the same time, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, filed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of the skeleton so that it could be returned to Mongolia, where dinosaur skeletons are deemed government property.

In New Jersey, State Senator Robert W. Singer, who sponsored the Senate version of the Weingarten bill, said he wanted to prevent situations like the one in which a church congregation in Farmingdale was prevented from relocating to Colts Neck because of an ordinance that deemed the property too small for a church.