translationfound has a useful list of American real estate terms with links to their entries in Wikipedia. Wikipedia has excellent resources, and it presents links to other law entries in the margin.

Of course there are differences from English law. But I can’t agree with the recent statement:

bq. Allodial is a real estate term (etymological source: royal estate – no inherent link to the word real) meaning land which cannot be granted by way of the feudal system – with obligations of any kind to a feudal overlord.

and

bq. Considering this – it is not surprising at all that legal terminologies linked to real estate business – in as much as they express an underlying philosophy –
differ between U.S. and British English.

The terminology is surprisingly similar. OK, we don’t have allodial rights (but see earlier entry on udal law) and we don’t have the Torrens system. And in 1925 English land law was reformed to leave only two legal rights and the rest equitable – which I think was never done in the USA. But I would say, yes, the terminology differs, but it’s surprising how little!

Fürther Nachrichten, 8.10.2005

Does anyone else find this odd?

Das Handelsblatt, bzw. der Mitarbeiter Heribert Adamsky, hat einen WirtschaftsWiki angefangen.

(Via Hebig.org)

(click to enlarge)

I found Hau den Lukas easier to understand.

But I see they’re older than I thought.

This site explains how the UK car registration number system works – it was changed in 2001.

Briefly: the first two letters are a ‘local memory tag’, the 51 indicates the age (changes every six months), and the last three letters are random letters.

(Information via an ITI members’ mailing list)

1. I don’t like to be critical all the time, but this seems wrong:

2. How does this read to someone who knows no German?

bq. Die The Michaelis Kirchweih grew historically and was ordered by the town councillor not to be for the Amusement of the People, like most of the various people celebrations were. The “Mother” of Kirchweih was the secondary oldest Church, named after the contentious Archangel. This somewhat plain, rather place of worship reminding of a Village Church was probably built in the Year 1100.

I suspect MT original, worked over by humans. Here’s the original:

bq. Die Michaelis-Kirchweih ist historisch gewachsen und nicht, wie etwa die verschiedenen Volksfeste, von Stadtoberen zur Volksbelustigung verordnet worden. Die Mutter der Kirchweih ist die zweitälteste Kirche von Fürth, St. Michael, benannt nach dem streitbaren Erzengel. Vermutlich wurde dieses etwas schmucklose, eher an eine Dorfkirche erinnernde Gotteshaus im Jahr 1100 erbaut.