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Agrarian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of R…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Amortization
noun · 78% connection
The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Amortize
verb · 78% connection
To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Analysis
noun · 78% connection
The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Borough-English
noun · 78% connection
A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the own…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Cognizance
noun · 78% connection
An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Commandery
noun · 78% connection
A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Curtesy
noun · 78% connection
the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Deforcement
noun · 78% connection
A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Disgavel
verb · 78% connection
To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Donee
noun · 78% connection
Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Entry
noun · 78% connection
The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Estate
noun · 78% connection
The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for yea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Eviction
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Fixture
noun · 78% connection
Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Hardness
noun · 78% connection
a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering; "the costs of reducing hardness depend on t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Hereditament
noun · 78% connection
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
Hotchpotch
noun · 78% connection
A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: reducing, lands, tenements, mortmain.
