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Administratrix :: Administratrix (n.) A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator..

Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n..

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc..

Infeudation :: Infeudation (n.) The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee.

Incumbrance :: Incumbrance (n.) A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value..

Remainder :: Remainder (n.) An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder..

Abutter :: Abutter (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river..

Demise :: Demise (n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals..

Allodium :: Allodium (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud..

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

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

Use :: Use (v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.

Tenant :: Tenant (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2..

Testament :: Testament (n.) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death..

Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate..

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..

Usufruct :: Usufruct (n.) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance..

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him..

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

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