ALIENATION

ALIENA'TION, noun [Latin alienatio.]1. A transfer of title; or a legal conveyance of property to another.2. The state of being alienated.3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the heart or affections.4. Delirium; derangement of mental faculties; insanity.Alienation-office, in Great Britain, is an office to which all writs of covenant and entry, on which fines are levied and recoveries suffered, are carried, to have fines for alienation set and paid thereon.

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alienation. Alienation, n. a making over, a selling, a change

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Al′ien‐a″tion (�), n. [[F. aliénation, L. alienatio, fr. alienare, fr. alienare. See Alienate.]] 1. 1. The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
2. 2. (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
3. 3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. 4. 4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Syn. — Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity.