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▸ noun:  (law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
▸ noun:  Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
▸ noun:  (countable) Death.
▸ noun:  (countable) The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete, law) To give.
▸ verb:  (transitive, law) To convey, as by will or lease.
▸ verb:  (transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, law) To pass by inheritance.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To die.

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