v
(law, transitive) To revoke (a legacy, grant, etc.) or to satisfy it by some other gift.
n
A child's allowance; pocket money.
n
(law, Scotland) The process that prohibits a debtor from making payment to the creditor until another debt due to the person making use of the arrestment by such creditor is paid.
v
(transitive, law) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
n
(law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
n
(law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
v
(intransitive, law) To transfer one's obligations from a person to another person.
adj
(of a person) Eligible for bail.
v
(transitive) To apply; make use of; use; employ.
v
Obsolete spelling of bestow [(transitive) To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put (something) somewhere.]
v
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
n
A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
v
To pledge assets as collateral.
v
(transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
v
(transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
v
(transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
v
(transitive) To entrust to the care of another.
v
(law) To transfer legal rights (to).
v
(law, transitive) To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
n
(law) An attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.
n
Obsolete form of conveyance. [An act or instance of conveying.]
v
(transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.
v
(transitive, law) To take the deposition of; to depose.
n
(law) A legal action to reclaim goods wrongfully detained.
adj
Of or relating to dispondees.
v
(transitive, law) To convey legal authority to another.
n
(law, Scotland) The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.
n
(law) One who dispones, or takes over legal authority.
n
(law, Scotland) One who legally transfers his or her own property to another.
n
(law) One who is disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully.
n
(law) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
v
(law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
v
(transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
v
To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.
n
The process or proceedings whereby a creditor must proceed against a principal debtor before proceeding against a surety or subsidiary debtor.
n
(now rare) Specifically, the seizure of a debtor's goods or property in default of payment.
n
Alternative form of foreclosure [(law) the proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments]
n
(psychoanalysis) Alternative form of foreclosure [(law) the proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments]
n
(law) The loss of forfeit property.
v
(UK dialectal) To grant respite; especially, to give a debtor credit or time for payment.
n
(law) A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff.
v
(law) To deliver (the decision of a court, etc.)
v
(transitive) To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).
v
(transitive) To pledge an item of value in return for a loan, or a trade for money.
v
(transitive) To settle a jointure upon.
v
(law, dated) To present the law that applies to a given case.
n
(rare, sciences, law) The act of obtaining.
v
Alternative form of paid up
v
Alternative form of pignorate [to pledge or pawn]
n
(law, obsolete, Ancient Rome) A pledge or pawn.
v
To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
n
A loan or advance (of money)
v
(transitive, idiomatic, dated) To pawn; to give as a guarantee.
n
(law) A person who owes a balance.
v
(transitive, commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.
v
To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim.
n
(law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition.
v
(obsolete, Britain, law) To bail.
n
(law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes
v
(law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
n
(law) an instruction by a drawer of a bill of exchange that the bill may be returned without protest if it is dishonoured by the drawee.
n
The officer who makes returns of writs, etc.
n
(property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
v
(transitive, with of, law) To put in possession.
n
(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
v
(transitive) To transfer (property or rights) to somebody else by signing a document.
v
(transitive) To assist (someone or something) by granting a subsidy.
v
(Hong Kong, transitive) To subsidize.
n
(law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
n
(law) The person to whom a surrender is made.
n
(law) A person to whom title or ownership is conveyed.
n
(law) A legal action brought to recover such property by its original owner.
n
(obsolete) The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in.
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