Alienation

Of Property. The transfer of property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things from one person to another. Termes de la Ley. It is. particularly applied to absolute conveyances of real property. A transfer of less than the whole title is not, in the United States, an alienation. 11 Barb. (N. Y.) 624. Alienation is either by deed, or by matter of record. (1) Alienations by deed are: (a) Original or primary alienations are those by which a benefit or estate is created (b) Derivative or secondary alienations are those by which the benefit or estate originally created is enlarged, restrained, transferred or extinguished; or they may be made by conveyances under the statute of uses. They are release, confirmation, surrender, assignment, and defeasance. Those deriving their force from the statute of uses are covenant to stand seized, bargain and sale, lease and release, deeds to declare the uses of other more direct conveyances, and deeds of revocation of uses. (2) Alienation by matter of record may be by private act of the legislature, by patents and other public grants, by fine, by common recovery. In Medical Jurisprudence. A generic term, denoting the different kinds of aberration of the human understanding. 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 535.

The transfer of the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, from one person to another. Termes de la Ley. It is particularly applied to absolute conveyances of real property; Conover v. Ins. By matter of record may be: Private acts of the legislature; grants, patents of lands, lines, common recovery. See Conveyam i:; Deed; Grant; Fine; Common Recovery; Devise; Will. In Medical Jurisprudence. A generic term denoting the different kinds of aberration of the human understanding. 1 Beck, Med. Jur. ~>-)~j. See Insanity.

In real property law. The transfer of the property and possession of lands, tenements or other things, from one person to another. Termes de la Ley. It is particularly applied to absolute conveyances of real property. Co.nover v. Mutual Ins. Co.., 1 N. Y. 290, 294. The act by which the title to real estate is voluntarily resigned by one person to another apd accepted by the latter, in the forms prescribed by law. The voluntary and complete transfer from one person to another, involving the complete and absolute exclusion, out of him who alienates, of any remaining interest or particle of interest, in the thing transmitted; the complete transfer of the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things to another. Orrell v. Bay Mfg. Co.., 83 Miss. 800, 36 South. 561, 70 In R. A. 881; Burbank v. Insurance Co.., 24 N. H. 558, 57 Am. Dec. 300; United States v. Schurz, 102 In S 378, 26 In Ed. 167; Vining v. Willis, 40 Kan. 609, 20 Pac. 232.

In medical jurisprudence. A generic term denoting the different kinds or forms of mental aberration or derangement.

— Alienation office. In English practice. An office for the recovery of fines levied upon writs of covenant and entries. Alienation pending a suit is void. 2 P. Wms. 482; 2 Atk. 174; 3 Atk. 392; 11 Ves. 194; Murray v. Baliow, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 566, 580.

[Lat. alienatio, q. v.] Transfer to another, (in alium); the act of making a thing another's, (alienum); conveyance, particularly of real estate, comprising any method wherein estates are voluntarily resigned by one man and accepted by another. 2 Bl. Com. 287. 1 Steph. Com. 433. 2 Crabb's Real Prop. 1050, § 2437.

in contracts, is the act whereby an estate is voluntarily resigned by one person, and accepted by another. Co. Litt. 118 b; Cruise Real Prop. tit. 832,c. 1,8.1.