demise
- Noun. (legal) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
- Noun. Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
- Noun. Death.
- Noun. end (less common, usually in a negative manner).
- Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To give.
- Verb. (transitive, legal) To convey, as by will or lease.
- Verb. (transitive, legal) To transmit by inheritance.
- Verb. (intransitive, legal) To pass by inheritance.
- Verb. (intransitive) To die.
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