- worthier
- wor·thy || 'wÉœrðɪ /'wÉœË- n. respected person, personage; "somebody" adj. eligible; worthwhile; valuable; important; just; respected; honorable
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
Worthier — Worthy Wor thy, a. [Compar. {Worthier}; superl. {Worthiest.}] [OE. worthi, wur[thorn]i, from worth, wur[thorn], n.; cf. Icel. ver[eth]ugr, D. waardig, G. w[ u]rdig, OHG. wird[=i]g. See {Worth}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having worth or excellence;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
worthier title doctrine — A common law rule that provides that a conveyance of real property by a grantor to another person for life with a limitation to the grantor s heirs creates a reversion in the grantor by which his or her heirs acquire the property only upon the… … Law dictionary
worthier title — wor·thi·er title n often cap W&T: a common law doctrine providing that an heir receiving a devise of an estate that is the same as the estate he or she would receive by descent if the grantor died without a will receives the property by descent… … Law dictionary
worthier title doctrine — /wsrdiyar taytal/ At common law where testator undertook to devise to an heir exactly same interest in land as such heir would take by descent, descent was regarded as the worthier title and heir took by descent rather than by devise. Jones v.… … Black's law dictionary
worthier title rule — The early rule of the common law that an heir may not take by devise where he may take the same title by descent, title by descent being regarded as the worthier and better title. 23 Am J2d Desc & D § 3. A rule sometimes advanced as the rationale … Ballentine's law dictionary
Doctrine of worthier title — Property law Part of t … Wikipedia
Wit at Several Weapons — is a seventeenth century comedy of problematic date and authorship. Authorship and DateIn its own century, the play appeared in print only in the two Beaumont and Fletcher folios of 1647 and 1679; yet modern scholarship has determined that the… … Wikipedia
Worthiest — Worthy Wor thy, a. [Compar. {Worthier}; superl. {Worthiest.}] [OE. worthi, wur[thorn]i, from worth, wur[thorn], n.; cf. Icel. ver[eth]ugr, D. waardig, G. w[ u]rdig, OHG. wird[=i]g. See {Worth}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having worth or excellence;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Worthiest of blood — Worthy Wor thy, a. [Compar. {Worthier}; superl. {Worthiest.}] [OE. worthi, wur[thorn]i, from worth, wur[thorn], n.; cf. Icel. ver[eth]ugr, D. waardig, G. w[ u]rdig, OHG. wird[=i]g. See {Worth}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having worth or excellence;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Worthy — Wor thy, a. [Compar. {Worthier}; superl. {Worthiest.}] [OE. worthi, wur[thorn]i, from worth, wur[thorn], n.; cf. Icel. ver[eth]ugr, D. waardig, G. w[ u]rdig, OHG. wird[=i]g. See {Worth}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having worth or excellence;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English