acquest

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of acquiring; acquirement: as, “countries of new acquest,” Bacon.
2. n. A thing gained; an acquisition; a thing acquired by force: as, “new acquests and encroachments,” Woodward, Nat. Hist.
3. n. In civil law: Property acquired in other ways than by succession.
4. n. Property acquired during a marriage under the rule of community of property.
5. n. See conquêt.

Wiktionary

1. n. rare Acquisition; the thing gained.
2. n. law property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. rare Acquisition; the thing gained.
2. n. (Law) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.