chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiffs bill. 2. A disclaimer is distin...
estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him. Vide Assent, Dissent. 2. It is said, that a dis...
pleading. A chasm or interruption in the pleading. 2. It is a rule, that every pleading, must be an answer to the whole of what is adversly alleged. C...
estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successo...
practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day...
practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action. Vin. Ab. h. t....
contracts. An allowance made upon prompt payment in the purchase of goods, it is also the interest allowed in advancing money upon bills of exchange, ...
Not covert, unmarried. The term is applied to a woman unmarried, or widow, one not within the bonds of matrimony....
intern. law. The act of finding an unknown country. 2. The nations of Europe adopted the principle, that the discovery of any part of America gave tit...
practice, pleading. The act of disclosing or revealing by a defendant, in his answer to a bill filed against him in a court of equity. Vide Bill of Di...
rights. The patent laws of the United States use this word as synonymous with invention or improvement of July 4, 1836, s. 6....
A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another, a variance. (q. v.) 2. Discrepancies are material and immaterial. A discr...
practice. When it is said that something is left to the discretion of a judge, it signifies that he ought to decide according to the rules of equity, ...
crim. law. The ability to know and distinguish between good and evil, between what is lawful and what is unlawful. 2. The age at which children are sa...
Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment, as when a fund is given to trustees to b...
civil law. A proceeding, on the part of a surety, by which. the property of the principal debtor is made liable before resort can be had to the sureti...
The act of depriving a member of a corporation of his right as such, by expulsion. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 192. 2. It differs from amotion, (q. v.) which is ...
Ignominy, shame, dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. 13 How. St. Tr. 17, 334, 16 How. St. Tr. 161. Vide Crimination, To Degrade....
Disinheritance, depriving one of an inheritance. Obsolete. Vide Disinherison....
One who disinherits, or puts another out of his freehold. Obsolete....
civil law. The act of depriving a forced heir of the inheritance which the law gives him. 2. In Louisiana, forced heirs may be deprived of their legit...
The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit. 2. By the common law, any one may give his estate...
One who has no interest in the cause or matter in is-sue, and who is lawfully competent to testify. 2. In North Carolina and Tennessee, wills to pass ...
One which is placed between two contraries, by the affirming of one of which, the other is taken away: it is usually expressed by the word or. Vide 3 ...
Another name for tithes. Dime, (q. v.) a piece of federal money, is sometimes improperly written disme....
The want of submission to the orders of a superior. 2. In the army, disobedience is a misdemeanor. 3. For disobedience to parents, children may be pun...
crim. law. A house, the inmates of which believe so badly as to become a nuisance to the neighborhood. 2. The keeper of such house may be indicted for...
An injury by union or comparison with some person or thing of inferior rank or excellence, as, while the infant was in ward, by the English law, the g...
A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an individual. In the United States, no power exists, except in the legislature, to dispense with ...
French law. This word has several accept-ations, sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person, and at others the instrument c...
pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the wor...
torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands....
torts. The privation of seisin. It takes the seisin or estate from one man and places it in another. It is an ouster of the rightful owner from the se...
torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully....
contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done. It is express or implied. 2. The law presumes that every person to whom a conveyance has b...
contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2. This dissolution of a partnership, is the p...
practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character, as, a foreign attachment in Pennsylvania is: dissolved by entering ...
This term is used in the statutes of Illinois, Rev. Laws of Ill. 1833, p. 332, and New Hampshire, Dig. Laws of N. H. 1830, p. 339, to express a state ...
One who makes a distress of goods and chattels to enforce some right....
remedies. A distress is defined to be, the taking of a personal chattel, without legal process, from the possession of the wrong doer, into the hands ...
English practice. A process commanding the sheriff to distrain a person from time to time, and continually afterwards, by taking his goods by way of p...
By this term is understood the division of an intestates estate according to law. 2. The English statute of 22 and 23 Car. II. c. 10, which was itself...
That virtue, whose object it is to distribute rewards and punishments to every one according to his merits or demerits. Tr. of Eq. 3, Lepage, El. du D...
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes. The United States are divided into judicial districts, in each of...
There shall be appointed, in each judicial district, a meet person, learned in the law, to act as attorney of the United States in such district, who ...
The name of one of the courts of the United States. It is held by a judge, called the district judge. Several courts under the same name have been est...
The name of a district of country, ten miles square, situate between the states of Maryland and Virginia, over which the national government has exclu...
remedies. A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to distrain one of his goods and chattels, to enforce his compliance of what is required of h...
torts. A wrong done to an incorporeal hereditament, by hindering or disquieting the owner in the enjoyment of it. Finch. L. 187, 3 Bl. Com. 235, 1 Swi...
A portion of the principal, or profits, divided among several owners of a thing. 2. The term is usually applied to the division of the profits arising...
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