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A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.

bassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate. The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners. Whitelocke. Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message. Addison.

banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.

the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands. Mozley & W.

Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.

Any of several valuable estates of the Egyptian khedive or his family. The most important are the Da"i*ra Sa"ni*eh, or Sa"ni*yeh, and the Da"i*ra Khas"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.

al magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates. -- Dean of peculiars, a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it. [Eng.] -- Rural dean, one having, under the bishop, the especial care and…

To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son. [Colloq. U. S.]

a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.

To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate. He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his…

nt; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety. Macaulay. Deficient number. (Arith.) See under Abundant. -- De*fi"cient-ly, adv.

One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.

hich one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.

Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.

The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter. Bouvier.

Deplorable. [Obs.] A more deplorate estate. Baker.

or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.

descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones.