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61 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DERIVATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of deriving, drawing or receiving from a source; as the derivation of an estate from ancestors, or of profits from capital, or of truth or facts from antiquity.
62 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DERIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To draw from, as in a regular course or channel; to receive from a source by a regular conveyance. The heir derives an estate from his ancestors. We derive from Adam mortal bodies and natures prone to sin.
63 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DESIGNATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of pointing or marking out by signs or objects; as the designation of an estate by boundaries.
64 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEVISE.11 (Noah Webster)
1. Primarily, a dividing or division; hence, the act of bequeathing by will; the act of giving or distributing real estate by a testator.
65 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTRIBUTION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of dividing among a number; a dealing in parts or portions; as the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
66 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DOWRY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife.
67 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DWINDLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away. The body dwindles by pining or consumption; an estate swindles by waste, by want of industry …
68 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELEGIT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The title to estate by elegit.
69 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENFEOFFMENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The instrument or deed by which one is invested with the fee of an estate.
70 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENJOYMENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Possession with satisfaction; occupancy of any thing good or desirable; as the enjoyment of an estate; the enjoyment of civil and religious privileges.
71 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENTAIL.2 (Noah Webster)
… estate or fee entailed, or limited indescent to a particular heir or heirs. Estates-tail are general, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs …
72 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EQUALLY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In equal shares or proportions. The estate is to be equally divided among the heirs.
73 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EQUITABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
… ; impartial. The judge does justice by an equitable decision. The court will make an equitable distribution of the estate.
74 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESCHEAT.9 (Noah Webster)
… . In the feudal sense, no escheat can exist in the United States; but the word is used in statutes confiscating the estates of those who abandoned their country …
75 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXPECTANT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. An expectant estate, is one which is suspended till the determination of a particular estate.
76 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORFEITURE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of forfeiting; the losing of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition or other act. In regard to …
77 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GAINFUL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Lucrative; productive of money; adding to the wealth or estate.
78 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GET.2 (Noah Webster)
… is the appropriate sense of acquire. We get a book or a loaf of bread by borrowing, we do not acquire it; but we get or acquire an estate.
79 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEIR.2 (Noah Webster)
… descent; the man on whom the law casts an estate of inheritance by the death of the ancestor or former possessor; or the man in whom the title to an estate of inheritance …
80 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEIRSHIP.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Heirship movables, in Scotland, the best of certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate.