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Save :: Save (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.

Disseizee :: Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor..

Ejectment :: Ejectment (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it..

Monopolize :: Monopolize (v. t.) To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land..

Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right..

Fetish :: Fetish (n.) A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to control that being..

Partnership :: Partnership (n.) A division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest.

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark..

Exchequer :: Exchequer (n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low..

Possess :: Possess (v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively..

Trover :: Trover (n.) The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means..

Mortmain :: Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate..

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them..

Fortune :: Fortune (n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune..

Fruition :: Fruition (n.) Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use..

Deforce :: Deforce (v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold..

Guarantor :: Guarantor (n.) One who engages to secure another in any right or possession.

Disseizor :: Disseizor (n.) One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold..

Reinstate :: Reinstate (v. t.) To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom..

Unprejudiced :: Unprejudiced (a.) Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge..

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