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Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. Abbott.

doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone.

To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.

To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank. His estate . . . devolved to Lord Somerville. Johnson.

ined, or squandered. Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke.

d had performed it, if my known offense Had not disabled me. Milton. I have disabled mine estate. Shak.

elinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill.

A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill.

A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such aliena…

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

To make over, or convey, legally. He has disponed . . . the whole estate. Sir W. Scott.

ut out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.

The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger.

A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor. [Written also disseisee.]

dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. A. R. Wallace.

rtioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.