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The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing, or jus in re. Pothier. B. R. Curtis. There are but few cases, if any, in…

ove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

e soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Milton.

That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.

Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time.

A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.

To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.

The act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.

One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.

; to disqualify. It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property. Milman.

Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of…

mpressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. The incompressibility of water is not absolute. Rees.

A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value.

The property or state of being indehiscent.

Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.

Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls past corporal toil. Shak. Charity consists in relieving the indigent. Addison.

The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an individual; that quality which distinguishes one person or thing from another; the sum of characteristic traits; distinctive character; as, he is a person of marked individuality.

The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke.

sually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred. Story. Byles. Burrill.