Demise

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Demise \De*mise"\, n. [F. d['e]mettre, p. p. d['e]mis,
     d['e]mise, to put away, lay down; pref. d['e]- (L. de or
     dis-) + mettre to put, place, lay, fr. L. mittere to send.
     See {Mission}, and cf. {Dismiss}, {Demit}.]
     1. 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.
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     2. The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also,
        the death of any illustrious person.
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              After the demise of the Queen [of George II.], in
              1737, they [drawing- rooms] were held but twice a
              week.                                 --P.
                                                    Cunningham.
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     3. (Law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in
        fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
        --Bouvier.
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     Note: The demise of the crown is a transfer of the crown,
           royal authority, or kingdom, to a successor. Thus, when
           Edward IV. was driven from his throne for a few months
           by the house of Lancaster, this temporary transfer of
           his dignity was called a demise. Thus the natural death
           of a king or queen came to be denominated a demise, as
           by that event the crown is transferred to a successor.
           --Blackstone.
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     {Demise and redemise}, a conveyance where there are mutual
        leases made from one to another of the same land, or
        something out of it.
  
     Syn: Death; decease; departure. See {Death}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Demise \De*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Demised}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Demising}.]
     1. To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to
        grant or bestow by will; to bequeath. "Power to demise my
        lands." --Swift.
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              What honor
              Canst thou demise to any child of mine? --Shak.
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     2. To convey; to give. [R.]
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              His soul is at his conception demised to him.
                                                    --Hammond.
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     3. (Law) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  demise
       n : the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his
           plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: {death}, {dying}]
           [ant: {birth}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "demise":
     abalienation, alienation, amortization, amortizement, annihilation,
     assignation, assignment, bane, bargain and sale, barter,
     bequeathal, biological death, cash in, cessation of life, cession,
     clinical death, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment,
     conveyance, conveyancing, crossing the bar, curtains, death,
     death knell, debt of nature, decease, deeding, deliverance,
     delivery, depart, departure, die, disposal, disposition,
     dissolution, doom, drop, dying, ebb of life, end, end of life,
     ending, enfeoffment, eternal rest, exchange, exit, expiration,
     expire, extinction, extinguishment, final summons, finger of death,
     giving, go, going, going off, grave, hand of death, jaws of death,
     knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep,
     lease and release, leaving life, loss of life, making an end,
     parting, pass, pass away, passing, passing away, passing over,
     perishing, quietus, release, rest, reward, sale, sentence of death,
     settlement, settling, shades of death, shadow of death, silence,
     sleep, somatic death, succumb, summons of death, surrender,
     trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal,
     vesting
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEMISE, persons. A term nearly synonymous with death. It is usually applied 
  in England to the death of the king or queen. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEMISE, contracts. In its most extended signification, it is a conveyance 
  either in fee, for life, or for years. In its more technical meaning, it is 
  a lease or conveyance for a term of years. Vide Cow. L. & T. Index, h.t.; 
  Ad. Eject. Index, h.t.; 2 Hill. Ab. 130; Com. Dig. h.t., and the heads 
  there referred to. According to Chief Justice Gibson, the term demise 
  strictly denotes a posthumous grant, and no more. 5 1 Whart. R. 278. See 4 
  Bing. N. C. 678; S. C. 33 Eng. C. L. R. 492; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1774, et seq.