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Alienation - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Alienation : (noun)
1: the feeling of being alienated from other people [syn: disaffection,
estrangement]
2: separation resulting from hostility [syn: estrangement]
3: (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and
possession of real property from one person to another;
"the power of alienation is an essential ingredient of
ownership"
4: the action of alienating; the action of causing to become
unfriendly; "his behavior alienated the other students"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Alienation : \Al`ien*a"tion\, n. [F. ali['e]nation, L. alienatio,
fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate.]
1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of
property to another.
3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
The alienation of his heart from the king. --Bacon.
4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties;
insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration;
mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See
Insanity.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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ALIENATION, med. jur. The termAlienation : or mental alienation is a generic
expression to express the different kinds of aberrations of the human
understanding. Dict. des Science Med. h.t.; 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 535.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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ALIENATION, estates.Alienation : is an act whereby one man transfers the
property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, to another. It
is commonly applied to lands or tenements, as to alien (that is, to convey)
land in fee, in mortmain. Termes de la ley. See Co. Litt. 118 b; Cruise Dig.
tit. 32, c. 1, Sec. 1-8.
2. Alienations may be made by deed; by matter of record; and by devise.
3. Alienations by deed may be made by original or primary conveyances,
which are those by means of which the benefit or estate is created or first
arises; by derivative or secondary conveyances, by which the benefit or
estate originally created, is enlarged, restrained, transferred, or
extinguished. These are conveyances by the common law. To these may be added
some conveyances which derive their force and operation from the statute of
uses. The original conveyances are the following: 1. Feoffment; 2. Gift; 3.
Grant; 4. Lease; 6. Exchange; 6. Partition. The derivative are, 7. Release;
8. Confirmation; 9. Surrender; 10. Assignment; 11. Defeasance. Those
deriving their force from the statute of uses, are, 12. Covenants to stand
seised to uses; 13. Bargains and sales; 14. Lease and release; 15. Deeds to
lend or declare the uses of other more direct conveyances; 16. Deeds of
revocation of uses. 2 Bl. Com. ch. 20. Vide Conveyance; Deed. Alienations by
matter of record may be, 1. By private acts of the legislature; 2. By
grants, as by patents of lands; 3. By fines; 4. By common recovery.
Alienations may also be made by devise (q.v.)
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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