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alien·ate /'ā-lē-ə-ˌnāt/ vt -at·ed, -at·ing [Latin alienare, from alienus not one's own]: to give away or sell (property or a property right) to anotherwill not sell, transfer, assign, hypothecate or otherwise alienate any of his voting shares — Strickland v. Rahaim, 549 So. 2d 58 (1989) compare devisealien·ation /ˌā-lē-ə-'nā-shən, ˌāl-yə-/ n
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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(estrange) verb
abalienare, aggravate, antagonize, avertere, be hateful, be unfriendly, bear malice, break off, cause dislike, cause loathing, come between, destroy goodwill, detach, disaffect, disunite, divide, embitter, enrage, envenom, fall out, harden the heart, incense, make averse, make indifferent, make inimical, make unfriendly, part, pit against, provoke hatred, repel, separate, set against, set at odds, set at variance, sow dissension, take umbrage, turn away, turn off, wean, withdraw the affections of
associated concepts: alienation of affections, alienation of power
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(transfer title) verb
abalienare, abalienate, assign, barter, consign, convey, deed, deliver over, demise, devolve, enfeoff, part with, pass, pass over, remise, sign away, sign over, substitute, surrender, transfer ownership, turn over
associated concepts: alienation of property
foreign phrases:
- Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda. — It is a rule that an agreement not to alienate my property is not binding.III index antagonize, assign (transfer ownership), cede, convey (transfer), disaffect, disown (refuse to acknowledge), estrange, repel (disgust), separate
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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v.To transfer property from one person to another.n.alienation
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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To voluntarily convey or transfer title to real property by gift, disposition by will or the laws of descent and distribution, or by sale.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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To voluntarily convey or transfer title to real property by gift, disposition by will or the laws of descent and distribution, or by sale.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.