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Annexation
verb · 78% connection
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the Unit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Appraise
verb · 78% connection
To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Beneficiary
adjective · 78% connection
Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Breathless
adjective · 78% connection
Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Continuance
noun · 78% connection
A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Deodand
noun · 78% connection
A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Detinue
noun · 78% connection
A person or thing detained
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Devise
verb · 78% connection
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Distrain
verb · 78% connection
To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Distrainor
noun · 78% connection
One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Distress
noun · 78% connection
Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Distringas
noun · 78% connection
A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Fieri facias
unknown · 78% connection
A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Fixture
noun · 78% connection
That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Good
superl. · 78% connection
Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Heat
noun · 78% connection
A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as man…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Heirloom
noun · 78% connection
Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
Heriot
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a ten…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: condition, holding, chattels, chattel.
