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(law) Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.
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Owning or possessing many acres of land.
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(law) The principle by which property rights extend vertically upwards and, sometimes, downwards from a property; it is used to describe air rights or no-fly zones, as well as rights to resources under the soil, such as mineral rights, among others.
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(Scotland, law) The half-year's stipend payable for the vacant half-year after the death of a parish minister, to which his family or nearest of kin have right under an act of 1672.
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(obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
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(historical, law) The inheritance of goods from a foreigner who died in a country where he was not naturalised.
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(Scotland, law) An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
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(obsolete) One who determined the amount of a cess; an assessor.
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A joint holder (of an account, a record, etc.).
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(civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
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(UK, law, historical) A legal proceeding in England that enabled lawyers to convert an entailed estate into absolute ownership, fee simple, by means of a legal fiction.
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(law) Property acquired during a marriage, excluding gifts and inheritances, that is owned jointly by both spouses and is divided upon divorce, annulment or death.
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(law) Joint inheritance or ownership of property.
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Any of several people who share an inheritance; a parcener.
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(countable and uncountable) Joint proprietorship.
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(law) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
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The tenure that a man is entitled to over the property of his deceased wife if there is a child who could inherit it.
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An executor or administrator appointed to administer the estate of a deceased who did not leave a valid will.
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(historical, law) A fine equal to the value of this object, paid by the owner of the object.
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(UK, law, obsolete) Relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession.
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(now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
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Obsolete form of inheritance. [The passing of title to an estate upon death.]
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The right of succeeding to an escheat.
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The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
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(archaic) The owner of an estate; a landowner.
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(obsolete) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
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A benefit bequeathed to a beneficiary who inherits the benefit, subject to the obligation of bequeathing it to another.
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(law, historical) A married woman's entitlement to the use of her husband's lands or property after he dies; or the land and property itself considered as such an entitlement.
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(UK dialectal) An heritable property as distinguished from a farm.
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(literally) those who own a portion of land
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An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
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The legal right to possess and use something that is owned by someone else.
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(business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
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The condition of being indentured.
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Obsolete form of enfeoff. [(transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.]
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Obsolete form of enfeoff. [(transitive, chiefly law, historical) To transfer a fief to, to endow with a fief; to put (a person) in legal possession of a freehold interest.]
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Alternative form of enfeoffment [(law, common law) The act or process of transferring possession and ownership of an estate in land.]
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(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
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The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
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(of an estate) Bequeathed to a wife through jointure.
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A woman to whom an estate is bequeathed via jointure.
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(law) The right of survivorship. This is often applied to survivorship in joint tenancy situations.
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(countable) A secret society that owns its own premises.
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The state or practice of owning land.
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The state or position of landowner.
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(Scotland, law) A writ requiring a person to give security against doing violence to another.
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(Ancient Rome, law, historical) A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.
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A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
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(transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
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(law) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.
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(law) A coheir, or one of two or more heirs to an estate that descends jointly, and by whom it is held as a single estate.
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The first purchaser of an estate.
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Property, assets or information directly owned by or under the control of the state.
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(law, business) A form trusteeship of bankruptcy administration in which a receiver is appointed to run the company for the benefit of the creditors.
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(economics) The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market.
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Holding the legal rights to something.
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A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
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A right to take possession.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) One to whom a right of surface occupation is granted; one who pays quitrent for a house built upon another's ground.
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To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
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(law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
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(law) One of the owners of an asset that is mutually owned by tenancy in common.
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(transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
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(Scotland, law) The process whereby the estate of a deceased person with no will or traceable blood relatives goes to the Crown.
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(law) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
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