ALIENATE - Black's Law Dictionary

What is ALIENATE? Definition of ALIENATE in Black's Law Dictionary

To convey; to transfer the title to property. Co.Litt. 118b. Alien is very commonly  used in the same sense. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 53.

"Sell, alienate, and dispone" are the formal words of transfer in Scotch conveyances of heritable property. Bell.

The term has a technical legal meaning, and any transfer of real estate, short of a conveyance of the title, is not an alienation of the estate. Masters v. Insurance Co., 11 Barb., N.Y., 630. See, also, Nichols & Shepard Co. v. Dunnington, 118 Okl. 231, 247 P. 353, 355. But the word has been defined as to convey or transfer to another as title, property, or right, to part voluntarily with ownership of property, and, in widest sense, property is alienated when transferred from one person to another in any way; but generally alienating is restricted to transfer of title to property by act of owner, as distinguished from transfer effected entirely by operation of law. Delfelder v. Poston, 42 Wyo. 176, 293 P. 354, 361.

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