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Definition of Alienations
1. alienation [n] - See also: alienation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alienations
Literary usage of Alienations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compendium of the Law of Property in Land: And of Conveyancing Relating to by William Douglas Edwards (1904)
"Invalid Alienations.—As a general rule, an agreement is void, both at law and in
equity, if it is entered into for an illegal purpose, or tends to promote ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"aroused by the strict enforcement of the canon laws which vitiated all alienations
and stripped all creditors of their claims. ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"These alienations extend not only to portions of the ... Since 1880 alienations
have been more carefully supervised than was usual in the past. ..."
4. A Handbook of Bankers' Law by Henry Robertson, W. D. Thorburn (1881)
"Alienations by Insolvent Persona. Act 1621, c. 18. ... The alienations struck at
by the Act, comprehend the whole of the debtor's heritable and moveable ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"... that several bills were brought in to resume all grants made by Charles II.
and James II.,4 and to prevent further alienations of crown lands.6 At the ..."
6. On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts: With Observations on by Franz Josef Gall (1835)
"Of intermittent Alienations, during the access of which certain Faculties, or
certain Propensities manifest themselves with great energy. ..."
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