Legal interest

For other uses, see Interest (disambiguation).

A legal interest refers to the legally enforceable right to possess or use property. The term may refer to past, present, or future interests. Legal interest may also refer to:

• Equitable interest, which is a legal interest that may be enforced by equitable remedies
• Estate in land, a possessory interest in real property
• Government interest, the rationale of a government in enacting a law or regulation
• Legal good, an interest protected by criminal law
• Right to property, the normative concept of entitlement to property
• Other forms of nonpossessory interest in land