Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
1. Property in general

780. Property.

   NOUN:PROPERTY, possession, seizin or seisin; tenure (possession) [See Possession]; suum cuique [L.], meum et tuum [L.].
  OWNERSHIP, proprietorship, lordship; seigniory or seignory or seigneury, seignoralty; empire (dominion) [See Authority].
  ESTATE, interest, stake, right, title, claim, demand, holding; vested -, contingent -, beneficial -, equitable- interest; use, trust, benefit; legal -, equitable- estate.
  absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee, – simple, – tail; estate -in fee, – in tail, – tail; estate in tail -male, – female, – general.
  term, limitation, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate -for life, – for years, – pur autre vie [F.]; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility.
  DOWER, dowry, jointure, appanage or apanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy (gift) [See Giving]; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.
  ASSETS, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth [See Wealth]; money [See Money]; what one -is worth, – will cut up for [colloq.]; estate and effects.
  REALTY, land, lands, prædium [L.]; landed -, real- -estate, – property; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal -, incorporeal- hereditaments; acres; ground (earth) [See Land]; acquest, mesestead [archaic], messuage, toft [Scot. & dial. Eng.].
  manor, honor [Eng. feudal law], domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda [Sp. Am.]; alodium or allodium (free) [See Freedom]; feoff, fief, feud or feod, zamindari or zemindari [India], arado [S. W. U. S.], rancho [S. W. U. S.], ranch.
  freeholds, copyholds, leaseholds; folkland [O. Eng. law].
  chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of -common, – user.
  TERRITORY, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, dependency, sphere of influence, mandate.
  PERSONALTY; personal -property, – estate, – effects; chattels, goods, effects, movables, stock, – in trade; things, traps [colloq.], chattels personal, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage [See Instrument]; parcels [Eng.], appurtenances.
  IMPEDIMENTA; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.
  INCOME (receipts) [See Receipt]; rent roll; maul and wedges [U. S.].
  patent, copyright; chose in action; credit [See Credit]; debt [See Debt].
   VERB:POSSESS [See Possession]; be the possessor of [See Possessor]; own; have for one’s -own, – very own; come in for, inherit; enfeoff.
  savor of the realty.
  BELONG TO; be one’s property &c. n.; pertain to, appertain to.
   ADJECTIVE:ONE’S OWN; landed, prædial or predial, manorial, alodial or allodial; seigniorial or seigneurial; freehold, copyhold, leasehold; feudal or feodal; hereditary, entailed, real, personal.
   ADVERB:TO ONE’S CREDIT, to one’s account; to the good.
  to one and -his heirs for ever, – the heirs of his body, – his heirs and assigns, – his executors, administrators and assigns.
   QUOTATION:Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?—Bible