ann, annat
a half-year’s stipend payable to the executor(s) of a minister after his death.
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annalzie
alienate, or sell or otherwise transfer ownership of property.
annexation
the act of uniting lands to the Crown (used for ‘confiscation’)
annual rent
interest on a loan of money, which takes the form of a yearly rent out of land; when usury (the practice of lending money at high rates of interest) was illegal before the Reformation this was a way of evading the prohibition on interest.
annuity
the right to a yearly payment in money.