alienate
sell or otherwise transfer the title to property.
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aliment
a maintenance. This was not reserved for maintenance due to a wife by a husband but also for other forms of maintenance such as that provided by creditors for impoverished debtors in prison, under the Act anent aliment of poor prisoners, 1696 (also known as the Act of Mercy).