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ESTATE |
One's property at death |
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HEIR |
One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession
of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law
bestows the ti... |
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HOTCHPOTCH |
A blending of property for equality of division, as
when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the
death of the ancestor, b... |
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TESTATE |
One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person. |
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MOURNER |
One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the
death of a friend. |
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DECUMBITURE |
Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's
sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made. |
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FIFTEENTH |
A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on
towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the
personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at. |
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DELIVER |
To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to
release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to
rescue from evil actu... |
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TRUST |
An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee
or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or
for the bene... |
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SWAN |
Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging
to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have
a large an... |
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INHERIT |
To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by
inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other
person to whose estate one su... |