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To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

ng; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver. The Lord is thy keeper. Ps. cxxi. 6.

he Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers.

Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.

The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property. [Scot.] Ramsay.

Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.

A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.

Having no property in land.

Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners.

larceny and Petit larceny are distinctions having reference to the nature or value of the property stolen. They are abolished in England. -- Mixed, or Compound, larceny, that which, under statute, includes in it the aggravation of a taking from a building or the person. -- Simple larceny, that which is not accompanie…

judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.

term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.

A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. Levy in mass Etym: [F. levée en masse], a requisition of all able-bodied men for military service.

eisure. -- Civil liberty, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. -- Liberty bell. See under Bell. -- Liberty cap. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave a…

A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.

etters; as, a literary man. In the literary as well as fashionable world. Mason. Literary property. (a) Property which consists in written or printed compositions. (b) The exclusive right of publication as recognized and limited by law.

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. Assured loss before the match be played. Shak.

Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.