Adj. exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of[obs3], unblest with[obs3]; immune from.
not having &c. 777; unpossessed[obs3]; untenanted &c. (vacant) 187; without an owner.
un.o.btained[obs3], unacquired.
#778. [Joint possession.] Partic.i.p.ation.-- N. partic.i.p.ation; cotenancy[obs3], joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation &c. 709.
snacks, coportion, picnic, hotchpot[obs3]; co-heirship, co- parceny[obs3], co-parcenary; gavelkind[obs3].
partic.i.p.ator, sharer; co-partner, partner; shareholder; co-tenant, joint tenant; tenants in common; co-heir, co-parcener[obs3].
communist, socialist.
V. partic.i.p.ate, partake; share, share in; come in for a share; go shares, go snacks, go halves; share and share alike.
have in common, possess in common, be seized in common, have as joint tenants, possess as joint tenants, be seized as joint tenants &c. n.
join in; have a hand in &c. (cooperate) 709.
Adj. partaking &c. v.; communistic.
Adv. share and share alike.
#779. Possessor.-- N. possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession &c.777; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee[obs3]; zemindar[obs3], ryot[obs3]; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.
owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator[obs3], master, mistress, lord.
land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour[obs3], landed gentry, mesne lord[obs3]; planter.
cestui-que-trust[Fr], beneficiary, mortgagor.
grantee, feoffee[obs3], releasee[Law], relessee[obs3], devisee; legatee, legatary[obs3].
trustee; holder &c. of the legal estate; mortgagee.
right owner, rightful owner.
[Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner[obs3], remainderman[obs3].
#780. Property.-- N. property, possession, suum cuique[Lat], meum et tuum[Lat].
ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority[obs3]; empire &c.
(dominion) 737.
interest, stake, estate, right, t.i.tle, claim, demand, holding; tenure &c. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin[Law], seisin[Law].
absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general.
limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie[Fr]; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility.
dower, dowry, jointure[obs3], appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy &c. (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.
a.s.sets, belongings, means, resources, circ.u.mstances; wealth &c. 803; money &c. 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects.
landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground &c. (earth) 342; acquest[obs3], messuage, toft[obs3].
territory, state, kingdom, princ.i.p.ality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence.
manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium &c. (free) 748[obs3]; fief, fieff[obs3], feoff[obs3], feud, zemindary[obs3], dependency; arado[obs3], merestead[obs3], ranch.
free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland[obs3]; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; eas.e.m.e.nt; right of common, right of user.
personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage &c. 633.
parcels, appurtenances.
impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.
rent roll; income &c. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].
patent, copyright; chose in action; credit &c. 805; debt &c.806.
V. possess &c. 777; be the possessor &c. 779 of; own; have for one"s own, have for one"s very own; come in for, inherit.
savor of the realty.
be one"s property &c. n.; belong to; appertain to, pertain to.
Adj. one"s own; landed, predial[obs3], manorial, allodial[obs3]; free lease-hold, copy lease-hold; feudal, feodal[obs3].
Adv. to one"s credit, to one"s account; to the good.
to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and a.s.signs, to one and his executors administrators and a.s.signs.
#781. Retention.-- N. retention; retaining &c. v.; keep, detention, custody; tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip.
fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum; bond &c. (vinculum) 45.
clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice.
paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf[obs3], neif[obs3].
bird in hand; captive &c.754.
V. retain, keep; hold fast one"s own, hold tight one"s own, hold fast one"s ground, hold tight one"s ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of.
secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband &c. (store) 636; reserve; have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock &c.
(possess) 777; entail, tie up, settle.
Adj. retaining &c. v.; retentive, tenacious.
unforfeited[obs3], undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated.
incommunicable, inalienable; in mortmain[Fr]; in strict settlement.
Phr. uti possidetis[Lat].
#782. Relinquishment.-- N. relinquishment, abandonment &c. (of a course) 624; renunciation, expropriation!, dereliction; cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation &c.757; riddance.
derelict &c. adj.; foundling; jetsam, waif.
discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish.
V. relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate!, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf &c.
(disuse) 678; set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.
give notice to quit, give warning; supersede; be rid of, get rid of, be quit of, get quit of; eject &c. 297.
rid oneself of, disburden oneself of, divest oneself of, dispossess oneself of; wash one"s hands of.
discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.
quit one"s hold, quitclaim.
Adj. relinquished &c. v.; cast off, derelict; unowned, unappropriated, unculled; left &c. (residuary) 40.
Int. away with!
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#783. Transfer.-- N. transfer, conveyance, a.s.signment, alienation, abalienation[obs3]; demise, limitation; conveyancing[obs3]; transmission &c. (transference) 270; enfeoffment[obs3], bargain and sale, lease and release; exchange &c. (interchange) 148; barter &c. 794; subst.i.tution &c.
147.
succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.
V. transfer, convey; alienate, alien; a.s.sign; grant &c. (confer) 784; consign; make over, hand over; pa.s.s, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange &c.(interchange) 148.
change hands, change hands from one to another; devolve, succeed; come into possession &c. (acquire) 775.
abalienate[obs3]; disinherit; dispossess &c. 789; subst.i.tute &c. 147.
Adj. alienable, negotiable.
Phr. estate coming into possession.
#784. Giving.-- N. giving &c. v.; bestowal, bestowment[obs3], donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment; investment, invest.i.ture; award.
almsgiving[obs3], charity, liberality, generosity.
[Thing given] gift, donation, present, cadeau[obs3]; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe [U.S.], pilon [obs3][U.S.].
grace, act of grace, bonus.
allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention.
bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation[obs3], dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance &c. 783; amortization.
alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative[obs3], help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula[obs3], Christmas box, Easter offering, vail[obs3], douceur[Fr], drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld[Ger], bakshish[obs3]; fee &c. (recompense) 973; consideration.
bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle*, graft, grease*;blat[Russian].
giver, grantor &c. v.; donor, feoffer[obs3], settlor.
V. deliver, hand, pa.s.s, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pa.s.s over, turn over; a.s.sign dower.
present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.
pay &c. 807; render, impart, communicate.