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Definition of Community property
1. Noun. Property and income belonging jointly to a married couple.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Community Property
Literary usage of Community property
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"Land acquired during the existence of a second marriage, through the exchange of
community property of the first marriage, does not become community ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"... where, in addition to an allegation in the bill of the existence of such an
amount of community property as to give jurisdiction, an affidavit filed for ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"alienation of community property. The husband's power to dispose of coin2.
A husband had no vested rights in the community property acquired prior to the ..."
4. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1899)
"An intent of the husband to dispose of his wife's share of the community property
by his will, and thus to put her to an election, will not be readily ..."