The anatomical examination of a dead body by cutting into pieces or exscinding one or more parts or organs, wehle v. Accident Ass’n, 11 Misc. Rep. 36, 61 N. Y. Supp. 865; Sudduth v. Insurance Co. (C. C.) 106 Fed. 822; Rhodes, v. Brandt, 21 Hun (N. Y.) 3
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In maritime law. To de-prive a seaman or petty officer of hls “rating” or rank; to reduce to a lower rate or rank
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A conflict or controversy; a conflict of claims or rights; an assertion of a right, claim, or demand on one side, met by contrary claims or allegations on the other. Slaven v. wheeler, 58 Tex. 25; Keith v. Levi (C. C.) 2 Fed. 745; Ft. Pitt Gas Co. v. Borough of Sewickley, 198 Pa. 201, 47 Atl. 957; Railroad Co. v. Clark, 92 Fed. 968, 35 O. C. A. 120
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To divest or deprive of qualifications; to incapacitate; to render ineligible or unfit; as, in speaking of the “disqualification” of a judge by reason of his interest in the case, of a juror by reason of bis bolding a fixed preconceived opinion, or of a candidate for public office by reason of non-residence, lack of statutory age, pre-vious commission of crime, etc. In re Tyers’ Estate, 41 Misc. Rep. 378. 84 N. Y. Supp. 934; In re Maguire, 57 Cal. 606, 40 Am. Rep. 125; Carroll v. Green, 148 Ind. 362, 47 N. E. 223; In re Nevitt, 117 Fed. 448, 54 C. C. A. 622; State v. Blair, 53 VL 28
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In old English law. Not answerable. Co. Litt 27 b, 53. 1 Steph. Comm. 245. Not punishable. “This mur-der is dispunishable.” 1 Leon. 270
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In the civil law. Discussion or argument before a court. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 38; Dlg. 1, 2, 2, 5
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ouster; a wrong that carries with it the amotion of possession. An act whereby the wrong-doer gets tbe actual occupation of the land or hereditament. It lncludes abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, deforcement. 8 Bl. Comm. 167
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To refute; to prove to be false or erroneous; not necessarily by mere denial, but by affirmative evidence to the contrary. Irsch v. Irsch, 12 N. Y. Clv. Proc
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Such as pro-duce or bring about the origination, transfer, or extinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comes into existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or translative, those through which it passes from one person to another
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Snm-mary process by a landlord to oast the ten-ant and regain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of the conditions of the lease, of local origin and colloquial use in New York
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These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for “sound mind,” and “testamentary capacity,” (q. v.)
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In Scotch law. A deed of alienation by which a right to property is conveyed. Bell
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To alienate or direct the ownership of property, as disposition by will. Used also of the determination of suits. Called a word of large exteut. Koerner v. wilkinson, 96 Mo. App. 510, 70 S. W. 509; Love v. Pamplin (C. C.) 21 Fed. 760; U. S. v. Hacker (D. C.) 73 Fed. 294; Benz v. Fabian, 54 N. J. Eq. 615, 35 Atl. 760; Elston v. Schilling, 42 N. Y. 79; Beard v. Knox. 5 Cal. 256, 63 Am. Dec 125
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That portlon of a man’s property which he is free to dispose of by will to beneficiaries other than his wife and children. By the ancient common law, this amounted to one-third of his estate if he was survived by both wife and children. 2 Bl. Comm. 492; Hopkins v. wright, 17 Tex. 36. In the civil law (hy the Lex Falcidia) it amounted to three-fourths. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §8 708, 771
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In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to the conveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, however clear mny he the meaning of the party. Paters. Comp
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Lat To dispose of, grant, or convey. Disponet, he grants or alienates. Jus disponendi, the right of disposition, i. e., of transferring the title to property
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This term, as nsed in ship-ping articles, means “disrate,” and does not import authority of the master to discharge a second mate, notwithstanding a usage in the whaling trade never to disrate an officer to a seaman. Potter v. Smith, 103 Mass. 68
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or DESPATCH. A mes-ttage, letter, or order sent with speed on af-fairs of state; a telegraphic message
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An exemption from some laws; a permission to do something forbidden; an allowance to omit something commanded; the canonlstic name for a license, wharton; Baldwin v. Taylor, 166
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To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert it into ordinary ground
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In old English law. Disparagement. tiaredes maritentur absque disparagatione, heirs shall be married with-oat disparagement. Magna Charta, (9 Hen. III.) c. 6
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L. Fr. Disparage-ment; the matching an heir, etc., in mar-riage, under his or her degree or condition, or against the rules of decency. Kelham
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