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81 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPAIR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value or excellence. An estate is impaired by extravagance or neglect. The profligate impairs his estate and his reputation.
82 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCONSISTENT.2 (Noah Webster)
… infers the negation or destruction of the other; or so that the truth of one proves the other to be false. Two covenants, one that a man shall have an estate in …
83 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCUMBRANCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A legal claim on the estate of another.
84 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFEUDATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee.
85 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INHERIT.2 (Noah Webster)
… decease. The heir inherits the lands or real estate of his father; the eldest son of the nobleman inherits his father’s title, and the eldest son of a king inherits …
86 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INHERITANCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The reception of an estate by hereditary right, or the descent by which an estate or title is cast on the heir; as, the heir received the estate by inheritance.
87 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INITIATE.8 (Noah Webster)
1. Begun; commenced. A tenant by the curtesy initiate, becomes so by the birth of a child, but his estate is not consummate till the death of the wife.
88 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INSOLVENCY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as the insolvency of an estate.
89 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVENTORY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. An account, catalogue or schedule of all the goods and chattels of a deceased person. In some of the United States, the inventory must include an account of the real as well as the personal estate of the deceased.
90 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIVERY.2 (Noah Webster)
… by the delivery of a turf, of a rod or twig, from the feoffor to the feoffee. In America, no such ceremony is necessary to a conveyance of real estate, the delivery …
91 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LOOM.2 (Noah Webster)
… with the inheritance, being such a thing as cannot be separated from the estate, without injury to it; such as jewels of the crown, charters, deeds, and the like …
92 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MERCHANDISE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The objects of commerce; wares, goods, commodities, whatever is usually bought or sold in trade. But provisions daily sold in market, horses, cattle, and fuel are not usually included in the term, and real estate never.
93 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORTGAGE.2 (Noah Webster)
… to the contract, the grant shall be void, and the mortgagee shall re-convey the estate to the mortgager. Formerly the condition was, that if the mortgager should …
94 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOMINEE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In law, the person who is named to receive a copy-hold estate on surrender of it to the lord; the cestuy que use, sometimes called the surrenderee.
95 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PARLIAMENT.2 (Noah Webster)
… , the grand assembly of the three estates, the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the commons; the general council of the nation constituting the legislature …
96 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PAWN.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Something given or deposited as security for the payment of money borrowed; a pledge. Pawn is applied only to goods, chattels or money, and not to real estate.
97 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLEDGE.11 (Noah Webster)
… , or the performance of some act. [This word is applied chiefly to the depositing of goods or personal property. When real estate is given as security we usually …
98 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSSESS.2 (Noah Webster)
… the title of, as the rightful proprietor, or to hold both the title and the thing. A man may possess the farm which he cultivates, or he may possess an estate in …
99 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSSESSION.4 (Noah Webster)
1. The thing possessed; land, estate or goods owned; as foreign possessions.
100 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREBEND.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The stipend or maintenance granted out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church. Prebends are simple or dignitary; simple, when they are restricted to the revenue only, and dignitary, when they have jurisdiction annexed to them.