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Copyhold

are applicable to the species of tenure. (6) Copyholds are alienated by surrender, according to general custom, followed by admittance at

fee

: a fee granted with no restrictions or limitations on alienability : fee simple absolute at fee simple conditional fee :

fee simple

(as to transfer of ownership)] : a fee that is alienable (as by deed, will, or intestacy) and of potentially indefinite

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Malik or milkiyat

donee described as a 'malik' has a full right of alienation unless there is something in the context or in the

Half-tongue

jury de meditate lingu', formerly empanelled to try foreigners. An alien is now tribal in the same manner as if he

Trust

in Wolst. and Ch. Conveyancing Statutes, Vol. II. Formerly an alien could not be a trustee of realty; but see now

Donis conditionalibus, Statute de

a conditional fee, which enabled him, after issue begotten, to alien the land, and thereby to disinherit the issue and to

Forfeiture

Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them;

Droit d'aubaine

of the king, entitling him, at the death of an alien, to all such alien was worth, unless he had a

amerasian (vietnam)

Amerasians under a law which provides for the admission of aliens born in Vietnam after January 1, 1962, and before January

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