At death, assuming no mis-dealings to certain innocent purchasers, the property involved in a life estate falls into the ownership of the remainderman ( " remaindermen " ) or reverts to its grantor ( all of which confusingly can be called'reversions'and'reversioners').
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If a life tenant purports to transfer the underlying'reversionary'interest, which a life tenant never has, this constitutes an actionable breach of trust for damages and may constitute criminal fraud however may not entitle the ultimate reversioner ( or substituted beneficiaries ) to be able to obtain a court declaration that the property is their own if that property is in the hands of an innocent purchaser for value without notice ( bona fide purchaser ).
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In fact, copyright law has very little to say about what people can do with a book once they have purchased it . " Free-speech activist Richard Stallman posted a statement on his blog calling for a boycott until the publisher issued an apology . have rebutted this, saying that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies only to the government, not to private litigation, and does not offer any protection of the right to read in any case, and the innocent purchasers of the " Harry Potter " book had no more right to read it than if they had come into possession of someone's secret diary.
