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Disaffect

To alienate or diminish the affection of to make unfriendly or less friendly to fill with discontent and unfriendliness

Disaffected

Alienated in feeling not wholly loyal

fee simple

[simple without limitation (as to heirs) and unrestricted (as to transfer of ownership)] : a fee that is alienable (as by deed, will, or intestacy) and of potentially indefinite duration ;esp : fee simple absolute in this

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Adverse possession

applicability of the doctrine of adverse possession. The right in the property ought to be one which is alienable and is capable of being acquired by the computer. Adverse possession operates on an alienable right, Amrendra Pratap

De medietate lingu'

De medietate lingu' (of a moiety of tongue), Jury. At Common Law an alien was entitled to be tried by a jury of which one-half consisted of aliens, and the (English) County

Forfeiture

of administrators of the property of convicts. (2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled

Copyhold

1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), are applicable to the species of tenure. (6) Copyholds are alienated by surrender, according to general custom, followed by admittance at the hands of the lord or his steward,

Denizen

Denizen [fr. donaison, donison, O.Fr., a gift], an alien born who has obtained, ex donatione regis, letters-patent to make him (either permanently or for a time) an

Malik or milkiyat

AIR 1963 SC 890. Malik, a devise or donee described as a 'malik' has a full right of alienation unless there is something in the context or in the surrounding circumstances to indicate that such full proprietary

Act of State

Saurashrtra v. Meman Haj Ismail, AIR 1959 SC 1383 (1387): (1960) 1 SCR 537. Means acts done against aliens in exercise of sovereign power of the State. The Municipal Courts debarred from entering into the validity of

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