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.