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Meaning of "owelty" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OWELTY

From Anglo-French owelté, ultimately from Latin aequalitas, from aequalisequal.
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PRONUNCIATION OF OWELTY

owelty  [ˈəʊəltɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OWELTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Owelty is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OWELTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of owelty in the English dictionary

The definition of owelty in the dictionary is equality, esp in financial transactions.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OWELTY


admiralty
ˈædmərəltɪ
casualty
ˈkæʒjʊəltɪ
commonalty
ˈkɒmənəltɪ
cruelty
ˈkruːəltɪ
difficulty
ˈdɪfɪkəltɪ
disloyalty
dɪsˈlɔɪəltɪ
faculty
ˈfækəltɪ
fealty
ˈfiːəltɪ
loyalty
ˈlɔɪəltɪ
mayoralty
ˈmɛərəltɪ
novelty
ˈnɒvəltɪ
penalty
ˈpɛnəltɪ
personalty
ˈpɜːsənəltɪ
realty
ˈrɪəltɪ
royalty
ˈrɔɪəltɪ
specialty
ˈspɛʃəltɪ
spiritualty
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəltɪ
subtlety
ˈsʌtəltɪ
vice-admiralty
ˌvaɪsˈædmərəltɪ
viceroyalty
ˌvaɪsˈrɔɪəltɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OWELTY

ow
owe
owelties
Owen
Owen gun
Owen Stanley Range
Owens
ower
owerby
owerloup
Owerri
owing
owing to
owl
owl-like
owler
owlery
owlet
owlish
owlishly

WORDS THAT END LIKE OWELTY

anticruelty
child cruelty
death penalty
degree of difficulty
faulty
felty
frailty
guilty
kelty
malty
melty
mental cruelty
persistent cruelty
plead guilty
salty
shelty
the death penalty
theatre of cruelty
university faculty
Welty

Synonyms and antonyms of owelty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «owelty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OWELTY

Find out the translation of owelty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of owelty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «owelty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

owelty
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

owelty
570 millions of speakers

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owelty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

owelty
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

owelty
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

owelty
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

owelty
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

owelty
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

owelty
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Owelty
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

owelty
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

owelty
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

owelty
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Owelty
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

owelty
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

owelty
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दिवाळखोर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

owelty
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

owelty
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

owelty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

owelty
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

owelty
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

owelty
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

owelty
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

owelty
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

owelty
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of owelty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OWELTY»

The term «owelty» is used very little and occupies the 191.607 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OWELTY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «owelty» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «owelty» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about owelty

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OWELTY»

Discover the use of owelty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to owelty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pittsburgh legal journal
ALLEGHENY COUNTY. Estate of LOUIS CELLA, Deceased. Sheriff's sale — Divesting owelty in partition. Where, in partition proceedings, recognizances were not required, but the decree of the court provided In pursuance of the agreement of ...
‎1853
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Supreme Court On Hindu Law
Official Receiver of West Tanjore, AIR 1957 SC 577 Issue Involved Hindu Law - Partition - Provision for "owelty". Cases Referred: 1. Sahebzada Mohd Kazim Shah v. R.S. Hill, (1903) ILR 35 Cal 388. 2. Poovanalingam Servai v. Veerayi, AIR ...
Kohli Hari Dev, 2010
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A Treatise on the Law of Liens: Common Law, Statutory, ...
Owelty of partition constitutes a first lien on the purpart of the former tenant in common, and is entitled to the priority over a mortgage of his undivided interest given by him before partition.3 " Presumably," says Mr. Justice Mercur,4 " the tenant ...
Leonard A. Jones, 2000
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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full ...
OVELTY. In old English law. Equality. See Owelty. OVERHERNISSA. L. Lat. Wax. qferherniss.] In Saxon law. Contempt ; contumacy ; despite. Spelman. OVERSMAN. In Scotch law. An umpire. 2 ITames' Equity, 290. OVERT, Overte, Ouverte.
Alexander Mansfield Burrill, 1850
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The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence
Eight hundred male convicts may be confined in Penitentiary, instead of six hundred, as limited by 59 G. 3, c. 136. THE PROPERTY LAWYER. No. XLIV. OWELTY OF EXCHANGE. The following point is new : — The purchaser of lands objected ...
‎1835
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The Law Library
SECTION II. AS TO A RENT GRANTED FOR OWELTY OF PARTITION. If a rent be granted for owelty of partition, it may be distrained for of common right, if in arrear, lest the grantee be without remedy, she having given a valuable recompense ...
‎1834
7
Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure ...
Owelty. Owelty is when there is lord, mesne, and tenant, and the tenant holds of the mesne by the same services that the mesne holds over the lord above him: as if the tenant holds of the mesne by homage, fealty, and twenty shillings rent, and  ...
John Rastell, William Rastell, 1812
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Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The order of the court, in this latter respect, as to the payment of the owelty, may be enforced by attachment. The only objection, therefore, which seems to exist to the decree of the Orphans' Court, is, that it did not give one of the shares, ...
Frederick Watts, Henry Jonathan Sergeant, 1843
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A Readable Edition of Coke Upon Littleton
Note, here a rent may be granted for owelty of par- jviiiiTM and tition without deed , even as a rent in case of a lease for years, for "c'""^e f'- , J * ttuguished as to life, or a gift in tail, may be reserved, without deed ; and so may a owel'y rent- rent ...
Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Thomas Coventry, 1830
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Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By ...
Two Estates exactly of equal values, can never be met with, and, therefore, it is incident to the Power, to receive Money tor owelty of exchange. By the Common Law, Money may be received for owelty of partition. The Trustees who paid the ...
Nicholas Simons, Sir John Leach, Sir Anthony Hart, 1836

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OWELTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term owelty is used in the context of the following news items.
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Latest judicial decisions on capital gains: Review
Owelty, family settlement and capital gains: An important question came up before the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the case of CIT v. «Moneycontrol.com, Sep 14»
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GIESLER v. GIESLER
... existed by reason of [Michael's] past or present employment," and judgment of $99,000 to be secured by an owelty lien on the new home. «Leagle.com, Jun 10»

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