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Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate..

Reconvey :: Reconvey (v. t.) To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels..

Census :: Census (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country..

Grandeeship :: Grandeeship (n.) The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship.

Jointure :: "Jointure (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower..

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..

Land :: Land (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate..

Spendthrift :: Spendthrift (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.

Assess :: Assess (v.) To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents..

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases..

Indigence :: Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence..

Propertied :: Propertied (a.) Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money..

Merger :: Merger (n.) An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater..

Quitclaim :: Quitclaim (n.) A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself..

Regalia :: Regalia (n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty..

Estate :: Estate (n.) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc..

Holding :: Holding (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

Waste :: Waste (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay..

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