alienation : Idioms & Phrases


alienation of affection

  • noun a tort based on willful and malicious interference with the marriage relation by a third party without justification or excuse
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Fine for alienation

  • (Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. Burrill.
Webster 1913

Mental alienation

  • insanity.
Webster 1913