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Admortization
noun · 78% connection
The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
Detention
noun · 78% connection
The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
Ejectment
noun · 78% connection
A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withhold…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
Entry
noun · 78% connection
The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
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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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
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: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
Hereditament
noun · 78% connection
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may…
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Lease
verb · 78% connection
To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
Livery
noun · 78% connection
The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.
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Misappropriation
noun · 78% connection
Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
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Moral
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
Mortmain
noun · 78% connection
Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: keeping, force, wrong, wrongful, withholding.
