words of purchase — Such words, used in a will or conveyance of real property, as give an estate originally, to the heirs, and not through the medium of, or by descent from, the ancestor. Ball v Payne, 27 Va (6 Rand) 73, 75. Words which describe any means of… … Ballentine's law dictionary
words of purchase or of limitation — The distinction between marking out the bounds of an estate conveyed and describing the means of acquiring an estate. 28 Am J2d Est § 102 … Ballentine's law dictionary
purchase — pur·chase 1 vb pur·chased, pur·chas·ing vt 1: to acquire (real property) by means other than descent or inheritance 2: to obtain by paying money or giving other valuable consideration; specif: to take (property) by a voluntary transaction (as a… … Law dictionary
purchase — Transmission of property from one person to another by voluntary act and agreement, founded on a valuable consideration. Spur Independent School Dist. v. W. A. Holt Co., Tex.Civ.App., 88 S.W.2d 1071, 1073. To own by paying or by promising to pay… … Black's law dictionary
purchase — To acquire title otherwise than by descent. 23 Am J2d Desc & D § 2. To acquire title by the voluntary act of another. For the purposes of recording laws, a purchaser acquiring legal title, or, under some statutes, a person acquiring an equitable… … Ballentine's law dictionary
purchase — vb *buy Analogous words: gain, win, *get, obtain, procure, secure … New Dictionary of Synonyms
purchase — [[t]pɜ͟ː(r)tʃɪs[/t]] ♦♦ purchases, purchasing, purchased 1) VERB When you purchase something, you buy it. [FORMAL] [V n] He purchased a ticket and went up on the top deck... [V n] Most of those shares were purchased from brokers. Syn … English dictionary
purchase — Synonyms and related words: achieve, acquire, acquiring, acquisition, advantage, approach, ascendancy, attain, authority, bear hug, bite, bribe, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, buying, charisma, charm, clamp,… … Moby Thesaurus
point-of-purchase shopping — n. A form of shopping in which one buys only products that meet a particular standard of political correctness. For example, avoiding French wines (nuclear testing) and certain makeup products (animal testing). Related Words: communal purchase… … New words
List of commonly misused English words — This is a list of English words which are commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and other professional linguists of Standard English. It is possible that some of the… … Wikipedia
