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Alias
noun · 78% connection
A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Attach
verb · 78% connection
To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Attornment
noun · 78% connection
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,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Average
noun · 78% connection
That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Avulsion
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Base
adjective · 78% connection
Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Besayle
noun · 78% connection
A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Capias
noun · 78% connection
A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Case
noun · 78% connection
A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Cessavit
noun · 78% connection
A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Cotenant
noun · 78% connection
A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Curtail dog
unknown · 78% connection
A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Discontinuance
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Discontinuee
noun · 78% connection
One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Discontinuor
noun · 78% connection
One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Dock
noun · 78% connection
The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Emphyteusis
noun · 78% connection
A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
Escheat
noun · 78% connection
A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: writ, right, tenant, tail, case.
