Word Meanings - TAILZIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

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• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• SUBSTITUTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted. -- Sub`sti*tu"tion*al*ly, adv.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• SUBSTITUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.
• SUCCESSION
  1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• LEGALLY
  In a legal manner.
• COURSEY
  A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• SUCCESSIONIST
  A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
• ENTAILMENT
  1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. 2. The condition of being entailed. 3. A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.
• SUBSTITUTIVE
  Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted. Bp. Wilkins.
• LEGALISM
  Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.
• SUBSTITUTION
  The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of substituting or putting one person or
• LEGALIZATION
  The act of making legal.
• LEGAL
  Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets. Bouvier. Burrill. Legal cap. See under Cap. -- Legal tender. The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim
• WHEREBY
  1. By which; -- used relatively. "You take my life when you take the means whereby I life." Shak. 2. By what; how; -- used interrogatively. Whereby shall I know this Luke i. 18.
• SUCCESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive. "Successional teeth." Flower. -- Suc*ces"sion*al*ly, adv.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• INTERCOURSE
  A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• ILLEGALNESS
  Illegality, unlawfulness.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• BLOCKING COURSE
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• ILLEGALITY
  The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.
• CONCOURSE
  1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving