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Straightened, as applied to roads. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A wrlt for a wlfe judicially separated to recover her all-mony or estovers, obsolete Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An allowance made to a person out of an estate or other thlng for hls or her support, as for food nnd […]

To stop, bar, or Impede; to pre* vent; to preclude. Co. Litt 352a. See Es-TOPPEL Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A bar or impedlment rais-ed by the law, which precludes a man from alleging or from denying a certain fact or state […]

L. Fr. To ap Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This word is used to ex-press the mind or judgment of the speaker or writer on the particular subject under con-sideration. It […]

An es Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The lords spiritual, the lords temporal, aud the commons of Gveat Britain. 1 Bl. Comm. 153. Sometimes called the “three estates.” Source: […]

Estate for another’s life. An estate in lands which a man holds for the life of another person. 2 Bl. Comm. 120; […]

See Estate in Fee-Tail Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An estate in land or other real property, of uncertain duration; that is, either of inheritance or which may possibly last for […]

A species of freehold estate in lands, otherwlse called a “fee,” where the tenant is not only entitled to enjoy the land […]

An estate held by a person in his own right only, with* out any other person being joined or connected with him […]

An estate in gage or pledge. 2 Bl. Comm. 157; 1 Steph. Comm. 282 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An estate limited to take effect in possession, or in enjoyment, or in both, subject only to any term of years or […]

A species of estate in expectancy, created by opera^ tlon of law, being the residue of an estate left in the grantor, […]

An estate in lands or tenements granted to two or more persons, to hold in fee-simple, fee-tall, for life, for years, or […]

An estate whereby a present Interest passes to and resides in the tenant, not depending on any subsequent circumstance or contingency. 2 […]

one Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The estate which a man has where ‘lands are given to him and to his heirs absolutely without any end or limit […]

An estate which several persons hold as one heir, whether male or female. This estate has the three unities of time, title, […]

A species of life-estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to clalm on the death of her husband, in the lands […]

A species of es-tate less than freehold, where a man has an lnterest in lands and tenements, and a possesslon thereof, by […]

An estate in lands held by two or more persons, wlth interests accruing nnder dlfferent titles; or accruing under the same title, […]