Strict settlement

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STRICT SETTLEMENT. When lands are settled to the parent for life, and after his death to his first and other sons in tail, and trustees are interposed to preserve the contingent remainders, this is called a strict settlement.

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construction			By the late eighteenth century, however, the character of the court's business, like the tough terms of contemporary wills guaranteeing strict settlement, had become freighted with the interests of propertied men. Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England by Jordan, Constance / Shakespeare Studies As part of telling the story of how the heiress-at-law was put down, Spring reevaluates the strict settlement in terms of how it participated in the history of the family. Women and Property in Early Modern England by Dolan, Frances E. / Renaissance Quarterly In the aftermath of the civil wars of the seventeenth century, most such landowners came to resort to "the strict settlement," the binding legal document that caused proprietors of vast estates to look on them not "as simply another form of property, but as a trust. Marriage, Debt and the Estates System: English Landownership, ... by Arnstein, Walter L. / Journal of Social History			stretch a point stretch out stretch the meaning stretch the truth stretch too far stretchable stretched stretching strew stricken strict strict construction strict control strict disciplinarian Strict Foreclosure strict honesty strict inquiry strict interpretation strict isolation Strict Liability strict meaning strict order strict procedure Strict Scrutiny strict search Strict settlement Strictissimi juris strictly strictly defined strictly honest strictly to the letter strictness Strictum jus stricture stridulous strife strike strike a balance strike a bargain strike a light strike against strike at strike back strike forcibly against each other strike hard strike home strike in with strike off strike off the roll strike off the roll of lawyers strike one as being			strict disciplinarian Strict evaluation Strict Foreclosure Strict hand strict honesty Strict iambic Strict iambic Strict inequality Strict inequality Strict inequality strict inquiry strict interpretation strict isolation Strict liability Strict liability Strict liability strict meaning Strict Minimum Message Length Strict Optical Orthogonal Code Strict order Strict order Strict partial ordering Strict Priority Queuing strict procedure Strict Round-Robin Strict scrutiny Strict Scrutiny Test strict search Strict Sense Non-Blocking Strict Sense Stationary Source Strict settlement Strict Source and Record Route Strict subset Strict subset Strict Transport Security Strict vegetarian Strict vegetarian Strict vegetarianism Strict vegetarianism Strict-Sense Convolutional Self-Doubly Orthogonal Code STRICTA stricter stricter stricter strictest strictest strictest Striction Strictissimi juris strictly strictly strictly strictly Strictly 4 My niggaz Strictly Business Strictly Business Strictly Controlled Conditions Strictly convex function Strictly convex polygon Strictly convex polygon Strictly Convex Quadratic Programming

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