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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALIENATION (from See also:Lat. alienus, belonging to another) , the See also:act or fact of being estranged, set apart or separated. In See also:law the word is used for the act of See also:transfer of See also:property by voluntary See also:deed and not by See also:inheritance. In regard to See also:church property the word has come to mean, since the See also:Reformation, a transfer from religious to See also:secular ownership. " Alienation " is also used to denote a See also:state of See also:insanity (q.v.). See also:ALIEN-HOUSES, religious houses in See also:England belonging to See also:foreign ecclesiastics, or under their See also:control. They generally were built where property had been See also:left by the donors to foreign orders to pray for their souls. They were frequently See also:regular " priories," but sometimes only " cells," and even " granges," with small chapels attached. Some, particularly in cities, seem to have been a sort of See also:mission-houses. There were more than Too in England. Many alien-houses were suppressed by See also:Henry V. and the See also:rest by Henry VIII.

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