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Fief :: Fief (n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2..

Redemise :: Redemise (n.) The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise..

Termer :: Termer (n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.

Land :: Land (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract..

Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..

Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices..

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

Leave :: Leave (v.) To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece..

Equitable :: Equitable (a.) That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc..

Opulent :: Opulent (a.) Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen..

Committee :: Committee (v. t.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian..

Inherit :: Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance..

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession..

Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) 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 taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

Ancestral :: Ancestral (a.) Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate..

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..

Purparty :: Purparty (n.) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener..

Discontinuor :: Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2..

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