To Alienate
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
estates, tstles. This is a generic term applicable to all those modes of parting with property by which the direct object is to deprive the heirs of the substantial interest in the estate; modes, which it is impossible to enumerate, and which must vary and multiply with the ingenuity of practitioners, and the progress of society. It was, therefore, held, that under a prohibition to alienate, long leases were comprehended.
2 Dow’s Rep. 210.