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Accession
noun · 78% connection
A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a rig…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
Admortization
noun · 78% connection
The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
Antonomasia
noun · 78% connection
The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
Common
noun · 78% connection
The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the comm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
Fall
verb · 78% connection
To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
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: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
Inherit
verb · 78% connection
To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose esta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: custom, some, ancient, boroughs, lands.
