Definition of property

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Property (a.) That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property..

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Embezzle :: Embezzle (v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary..
Levy :: Levy (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution..
Skin :: Skin (v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
Snug :: Snug (superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property..
Law :: Law (n.) Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law..
Hoveler :: Hoveler (n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
Peculiar :: Peculiar (n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Trade :: Trade (v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
Accidental :: Accidental (n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
Agrarian :: Agrarian (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity..
Appropriate :: Appropriate (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property..
Socialism :: Socialism (n.) A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism..
Good :: Good (n.) Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property..
Contractile :: Contractile (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues..
Wrongful :: Wrongful (a.) Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing..
Tetartohedrism :: Tetartohedrism (n.) The property of being tetartohedral.
Dichroism :: Dichroism (n.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes..
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