Legal Definition and Related Resources of Alienation
Meaning of Alienation
Of Property. The transfer of property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things from one person to another. Termes de la Ley. It is. particularly applied to absolute conveyances of real property. A transfer of less than the whole title is not, in the United States, an alienation. 11 Barb. (N. Y.) 624. Alienation is either by deed, or by matter of record.
(1) Alienations by deed are: (a) Original or primary alienations are those by which a benefit or estate is created or first arises. They are feoffment, gift, grant, lease, exchange, and partition. (b) Derivative or secondary alienations are those by which the benefit or estate originally created is enlarged, restrained, transferred or extinguished; or they may be made by conveyances under the statute of uses. They are release, confirmation, surrender, assignment, and defeasance. Those deriving their force from the statute of uses are covenant to stand seized, bargain and sale, lease and release, deeds to declare the uses of other more direct conveyances, and deeds of revocation of uses.
(2) Alienation by matter of record may be by private act of the legislature, by patents and other public grants, by fine, by common recovery. In Medical Jurisprudence. A generic term, denoting the different kinds of aberration of the human understanding. 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 535.
What does Alienation mean in American Law?
The definition of Alienation in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
See generally alienate. See also alienation of affections; alienist. There is also an important and widely used modern employment of “alienation” to refer, not very precisely, to some feeling of powerlessness or meaninglessness, i.e., as a rough synonym for anomie. The general idea is that people in a complex, bureaucratic world, estranged from any belief in any divine purpose for them or the world, increasingly come to feel that there is no point to anything. The contemporary modishness of the word may also be traced to the discovery (in the 1930’s) of certain early writings by Karl Marx, in which he used a German word which can be translated as “alienation” to describe the feelings of workers allegedly reduced to mere object-making tools by the capitalist mode of production. While this modern use of “alienation” may be waning, it is still widely heard. Cf angst.
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Synonyms of Alienation
(Estrangement), noun
- abhorrence
- abomination
- acrimony
- alienatio
- animosity
- antagonism
- antipathy
- aversion
- bitterness
- breach
- break
- deflection
- disaffection
- disfavor
- disruption
- division
- enmity
- execration
- hostility
- implacability
- loathing
- malevolence
- malice
- odium
- rancor
- rift
- rupture
- schism
- separation
- split
- umbrage
- unfriendliness
- variance
- withdrawal Associated Concepts: alienation of affections
- alienation of power
- foreign phrases: Alienatio reipraefertur juri accrescen di
- Alienation is favored by the law rather than accumulation
(Transfer of title), noun
- abalienatio
- abalienation
- assignation
- assignment
- cession
- conferment
- conferral
- consignation
- consignment
- conveyance
- conveyancing
- deeding
- deliverance
- delivery
- demise
- enfeoffment
- limitation
- nonretention
- selling
- surrender
- transference
- transmission
- Associated Concepts: alienation clause
- alienation of property
Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Alienation
(You may find alienation at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
late 14c., “transfer of ownership, action of estranging,” from Old French alienacion and directly from Latin alienationem (nominative alienatio) “a transfer, surrender, separation,” noun of action from past participle stem of alienare “to make another’s, part with; estrange, set at variance,” from alienus “of or belonging to another person or place,” from alius “another, other, different,” from PIE root *al- (1) “beyond.” Middle English alienation also meant “deprivation of mental faculties, insanity” (early 15c.), from Latin alienare in a secondary sense “deprive of reason, drive mad;” hence alienist. Phrase alienation of affection as a U.S. legal term in divorce cases for “falling in love with someone else” dates to 1861.
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Legal English Vocabulary: Alienation in Spanish
Online translation of the English legal term alienation into Spanish: alienación (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.
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See Also
Existentialism ; Identity ; Person, Idea of the ; Society.
Ego ideal; I; Ideology; Imaginary identification/symbolic identification; Mirror stage; Passion.
WORK, SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF.
Further Reading
Adorno, Theodore W. 1962 Einleitung in die Musiksoziologie. Frankfurt am Main (Germany): Suhrkamp.
Axelos, Kostas (1961) 1963 Marx: Penseur de la technique, Paris: Minuit.
Bell, Daniel 1959 The End of Ideology. Glencoe, III.: Free Press. _ A paperback edition was published in 1961 by Collier.
Calvez, Jean-Yves 1956 La pensée de Karl Marx. Paris: Seuil.
Cottier, Georges M.-M. 1959 L’athéisme du jeune Marx: Ses origines hégéliennes. Paris: Vrin.
Feuerbach, Ludwig a. (1840) 1957 The Essence of Christianity. New York: Harper. _ First published in German.
Freud, Sigmund (1927) 1960 The Future of an Illusion. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. _ First published in German.
Freud, Sigmund (1930) 1958 Civilization and Its Discontents. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. _ First published as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur.
Gurvitch, Georges 1962 Dialectique et sociologie. Paris: Flammarion.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1795-1809) 1961 On Christianity: Early Theological Writings. Gloucester, Mass.: Smith. _ Written during the years 1795-1809. First published in 1907 as Hegels theologische Jugendschriften.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1807) 1961 The Phenomenology of Mind. 2d ed., rev. London: Allen & Unwin; New York: Macmillan. _ First published in German.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1812-1816) 1951 Hegel’s Science of Logic. 2 vols. London: Allen & Unwin; New York: Macmillan. _ First published in German.
Hyppolite, Jean 1955 Études sur Marx et Hegel. Paris: Rivière.
Kamenka, Eugene 1962 The Ethical Foundations of Marxism. London: Routledge; New York: Praeger.
More Further Reading
Lichtheim, George (1961) 1965 Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study. 2d ed., rev. London: Routledge; New York: Praeger. _ A paperback edition was published by Praeger in 1965.
Marcuse, Herbert (1941) 1955 Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory. 2d ed. London: Routledge. _ A paperback edition was published in 1960 by Beacon.
Marx, Karl (1844) 1964 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. New York: International Publishers; London: Lawrence & Wishart. _ First published in German in 1932. Sometimes referred to as the “Paris Manuscripts of 1844.”
Marx, Karl (1845) 1935 Theses on Feuerbach. Pages 73-75 in Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy. New York: International.
Marx, Karl. Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy. Edited by T. B. Bottomore and M. Rubel. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Popitz, Heinrich 1953 Der entfremdete Mensch: Zeitkritik und Geschichtsphilosophie des jungen Marx. Basel: Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft.
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1849) 1929 Oeuvres complètes. Volume 8: Les confessions d’un révolutionnaire. Paris: Rivière.
Runciman, Walter G. 1963 Social Science and Political Theory. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Schiller, Johann C. Friedrich (1795) 1845 The Aesthetic Letters, Essays and the Philosophical Letters of Schiller. Boston: Little. _ First published as Briefe über die aesthetische Erziehung des Menschen.
Schiller, Johann C. Friedrich. Philosophische Schriften und Gedichte. Edited by Eugen Kühnemann. Leipzig: Meiner, 1922.
Tucker, Robert C. 1961 Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx. Cambridge Univ. Press.
English Legal System: Alienation
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Alienation :
The transfer of property (particularly real property) from one person to another.
See also restraint on alienatio
Concept of Alienation in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Alienation: Transfer of property from one owner to another.
Concept of Alienation in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Alienation: Transfer of property from one owner to another.
Definition of Alienation
The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Alienation: A separation of individuals from control and direction of their social life. The term was used widely in German philosophy in the 18th and 19th centuries, but it has become important for sociology through the ideas of Karl Marx (1818-1883). Marx claimed that human alienation was created by a socially structured separation between humans and their work. This separation reached its highest intensity in capitalist society where the great mass of the population depended for subsistence on working under the direction of others. In the capitalist workplace, individuals were separated from ownership, control and direction of their work and were unable to achieve personal creative expression. The competitive nature of the workplace also alienated, or separated, workers from each other.
Alienation: Resources
Notes and References
- Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Alienation. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada
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