Countryseat: alternatives and connections

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district tha…

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to…

To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a pe…

The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior,…

The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change…

exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger coun…

A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, expre…

To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real…

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal est…

Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason o…

The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or est…

A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized i…

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment…

Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., o…

One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.