property

Roget category 780

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.1. Property in general

#780. Property

noun

property, possession, suum cuique [Lat.], meum et tuum [Lat.].
ownership, proprietorship, lordship — seignority^† — empire etc. (dominion) 737.
interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding — tenure etc. (possession) 777 — vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest — use, trust, benefit — legal estate, equitable estate — seizin [Law], seisin [Law].
absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold — fee tail, fee simple — estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail — estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general.
limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate — estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie [Fr.] — remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility.
dower, dowry, jointure^†, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony — legacy etc. (gift) 784 — Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.
assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances — wealth etc. 803 — money etc. 800 — what one is worth, what one will cut up for — estate and effects.
landed property, landed real estate property — realty — land, lands — tenements — hereditaments — corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments — acres — ground etc. (earth) 342 — acquest^†, messuage, toft^†.
territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence.
manor, honor, domain, demesne — farm, plantation, hacienda — allodium etc. (free) 748^† — fief, fieff^†, feoff^†, feud, zemindary^†, dependency — arado^†, merestead^†, ranch.
free lease-holds, copy lease-holds — folkland^† — chattels real — fixtures, plant, heirloom — easement — right of common, right of user.
personal property, personal estate, personal effects — personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables — stock, stock in trade — things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia — equipage etc. 633.
parcels, appurtenances.
impedimenta — luggage, baggage — bag and baggage — pelf — cargo, lading.
rent roll — income etc. (receipts) 810 — maul and wedges [U.S.].
patent, copyright — chose in action — credit etc. 805 — debt etc. 806.

verb

possess etc. 777 — be the possessor of etc. 779, own — have for one's own, have for one's very own — come in for, inherit.
savor of the realty.
be one's property etc. n. — belong to — appertain to, pertain to.

adjective

one's own — landed, predial^†, manorial, allodial^† — free lease-hold, copy lease-hold — feudal, feodal^†.

adverb

to one's credit, to one's account — to the good.
to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and to one and his executors administrators and assigns.

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