This may be done either by naming two persons in particular, or else by describing a class of persons, and bounding the suspense of alienation by the lives of the two first who shall die out of the class.
Paul utterly repudiated the agreement which had been entered into between the Legate and the Parliament; he demanded the restoration of every acre of Church property; and he annulled all alienation of it by a general bull.
It facilitated the creation of entailed estates by providing that the rights of an heir of an estate, granted upon conditions, were not to be barred on account of the alienation of such an estate by its previous tenant.
There were clauses forbidding alienation of domain, the abuses of purveyance, the usurpations of the courts of the royal household, the enlargement of the forests, and the employment of unlawful sources of revenue.
Owing to the alienation produced by this affair, there was little communication between the uncle and niece; the latter passing her time in retirement, and professedly with friends that the former neither knew nor cared to know.
In restoring order and justice, everything like retaliation ought to be religiously avoided; and an example ought to be set of a total alienation from the Jacobin proceedings in their accursed revolutionary tribunals.
It is impossible that such a state of things, though natural goodness in many persons will undoubtedly make exceptions, must not produce alienation on the one side and pride and insolence on the other.
In such a state of affairs, with the growing alienation of the Queen, it became necessary for the proud Duchess to resign her offices; but before doing this she made one final effort to regain what she had lost.
It was a bitter reflection to the proud Duchess that the alienation of the Queen was the result of her own folly and pride rather than of royal capriciousness.
Isabella hated the Despensers; she was alienated from her husband; but hatred and alienation were as yet jealously concealed.
Now that the Pope had become a tool in the hands of a power which was to be its great enemy, the country was driven to close alliances with the Empire and to an evergrowing alienation from the Roman See.
The purpose of the statute "Quia Emptores" was to check this process by providing that in any case of alienation the sub-tenant should henceforth hold, not of the tenant, but directly of the superior lord.
It was usual for the courtiers, during this reign, to make an agreement with a bishop or incumbent; and to procure a fictitious alienation to the queen, who afterwards transferred the lands to the person agreed on.
Besides the great alienation of the crown lands, the fee- farm rents never increased, and the other lands were let on long leases and at a great undervalue, little or nothing above the old rent.
He foresaw the despondency, the oppression of the prisoners, and the gradual alienation of the colonists.
One great purpose steadily kept in view in all the Mosaic land-laws was the prevention of the alienation of the land from its original holders, and of its accumulation in a few hands.
Accordingly, the power of alienation was reintroduced by the judges in Taltarum's case (Year Book, 12 Edward IV.
The common form was a grant "to the feoffee and the heirs of his body," by which limitation it was sought to preventalienation from the lineage of the first purchaser.
The contention became acrimonious, and thealienation of friendships was widespread.
What a wholesome buffet it gives to Lord Lyndhurst's alienation doctrines!
This measure occasioned an alienation from its interests in the minds of many of its former adherents.
Its first acts which caused dissatisfaction and alienation in the American Colonies.
A map to illustrate the Indian purchases, made by the proprietary, is given in An Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians (London, 1759).
Particularly may reference be made to Charles Thomson’s Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British Interests.
Lands could now be held in fee-simple, and the power of alienation was unrestricted.
This alienation of the senses is sometimes complete, sometimes incomplete.
This selfish disposition, and thisalienation of the heart from God, is native depravity, is inborn corruption.
Has he discovered hisalienation from the life and love of God, and is he now aware that a total change must pass upon him, or that alienation must be everlasting?
A state of sin is a state of alienation and separation from the Creator.
The attempted alienation of Theresa consisted in the secret allowance to her mother and her by Grimm and Diderot of some sixteen pounds a year.
Rousseau's next letter to Voltaire was four years later, and by that time the alienation which had no definitely avowed cause, and can be marked by no special date, had become complete.
But if such a man be really a Christian, that is, if he do really love God supremely and his neighbor as himself, in what a state of awful alienation and stupidity must he be living!
It forbade, on pain of forfeiture, the alienation of land to religious bodies which were incapable of performing the services due from it.
He was so far happy that his mental alienation was of a gay and pleasant character, giving a kind of joyous explanation to all that came in contact with him.
