feud, zemindary[obs3], dependency; arado[obs3], merestead[obs3], ranch.
     free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland[obs3]; chattels real;
fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.
     personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty,
chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage &c. 633.
     parcels, appurtenances.
     impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.
     rent roll; income &c. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].
     patent, copyright; chose in action; credit &c. 805; debt &c.806. 
     V. possess &c. 777; be the possessor &c. 779 of; own; have for one’s
own, have for one’s very own; come in for, inherit.
     savor of the realty.
     be one’s property &c. n.; belong to; appertain to, pertain to. 
     Adj. one’s own; landed, predial[obs3], manorial, allodial[obs3]; free
lease-hold, copy lease-hold; feudal, feodal[obs3]. 
     Adv. to one’s credit, to one’s account; to the good.
     to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to
one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assigns.

     #781.  Retention.—­ N. retention; retaining &c. v.; keep, detention,
custody; tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip.
     fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum;
bond &c. (vinculum) 45.
     clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice.
     paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf[obs3], neif[obs3].
     bird in hand; captive &c.754. 
     V. retain, keep; hold fast one’s own, hold tight one’s own, hold fast
one’s ground, hold tight one’s ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of.
     secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband
&c. (store) 636; reserve; have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock &c. (possess) 777; entail, tie up, settle. 
     Adj. retaining &c. v.; retentive, tenacious.
     unforfeited[obs3], undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated.
     incommunicable, inalienable; in mortmain[Fr]; in strict settlement. 
     Phr. uti possidetis[Lat].

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     #782.  Relinquishment.—­ N. relinquishment, abandonment &c. (of a
course) 624; renunciation, expropriation|!, dereliction; cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation &c.757; riddance.
     derelict &c. adj.; foundling; jetsam, waif.
     discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish. 
     V. relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip;
spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate|!, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf &c. (disuse) 678; set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.