ALIENATION, Alienatio, in Law, the Act of making a thing another Man’s; or the altering, and transferring the Property and Possession of Lands, Tenements, or other Things, from one Man to another. See TRANSFERRING, POSSESSION, etc.To alienate, or alien, in Mortmain, is to make over Lands or Tenements to a Religious Community, or other Body Politick. See MORTMAIN. To alienate in Fee, is to sell the Fee-simple of any Land, or other incorporeal Right. See FEE.Crown-Lands are only alienable under a Faculty of perpetual Redemption. See REDEMPTION.The Council of Lateran, held in 1123, forbids any Clerk to alienate his Benefice, Prebend, or the like. See PREBEND, etc.
