To repudiate; to revoke a consent once given; to recall an affirmance. To refuse one’s subsequent sanction to a for-mer act; to disclaim the intention of being hound by an antecedent transaction
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The repudiation of a former transaction. The refusal by one who hais the right to refuse, (as in the case of a voidable contract,) to abide by hls former acts, or accept the legal consequences of the same. It may either be “express” (in words) or “implied” from acts expressing
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These are acts of parliament, restraining and regulat-lng the exercise of a right or the power of alienation; the term is specially applied to 1 Eliz. c. 19, and similar acts restraining the power of ecclesiastical corporations to make leases
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The want of legal ability or capacity to exercise legal rights, elther spectator ordinary, or to do certain acts with proper legal effect, or to enjoy.certaln prlvl-leges or powers of free actlon. Berkln v. Marsh, 18 Mont. 152, 44 Pac. 528, 56 Am. SL Rep. 565
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In Its ordinary sense, to dis-able is to cause a disability, (q. v
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In Roman law. officers who distributed ballots to the people, to be used in voting. Tayl. Clvil Law, 192
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In canon law. Absolute bars to marriage, which would make it null ab initio
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Persons appointed or elected according to law, authorized to man-age and direct the affairs of a corporatlon or company. The whole of the directors col-lectlvely form the board of directors. Brandt v. Godwin (City CL) 3 N. Y. Supp. 800; May-nard v. Insurance Co., 34 Cal. 48, 91 Am. Dec. 672; Pen. Code N. Y. 1903, t 614; Rev. St Tex. 1896, art 3096a; Ky. St. 1903, { 575
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A provision in a statute, rule of procedure, or the like, is sald to be dlrectory when it is to be consldered as a mere dlrection or lnstructlon of no obliga-tory force, and lnvolvlng no lnvalidatlng con-sequence for lts disregard,, as opposed to an imperative or mandatory provlsion, whlch must be followed. The general rule is that the prescriptions of a statute relating to the performance of a publlc duty are so far directory that, though neglect of them may be punlshable, yet it does not afTect the validity of the acts done under them, as in the vase of a statute requlrlng an officer to prepare and dellver a document to another officer on or before a certain day. Maxw. Interp. St 330, et seq. And see Pearse v. Morrice, 2 Adol. & El. 94; Nelms v. Vaughan, 84 Va. 696, 5 8. E. 704; State v. Conner, 86 Tex. 133, 23 S. W. 1103; Payne v. Fresco, 4 Kulp (Pa.) 28; Bladen v. Philadelphia, 60 Pa. 466
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1. The act of governing; management; superintendence. Also the body of persons (called “directors”) who are charged with the management and adminis-tration of a corporation or institution
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An officer havlng the control, management, and superintendence of the Unlted States mlnt and lts branches. He is appointed by the president, by and with the advlce and con-sent of the senate
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Diptychs; tablets of wood, metal, or other substance, used among the Romans for the purpose of writing, and fold* ed like a book of two leaves. The diptychs of antiquity were especially employed for public registers. They were used in the Greek, and afterwards in the Roman, church, as registers of the names of those for whom supplication was to be made, and are ranked – among tbe earliest monastlc records. Burrlll
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Immediate; by the shortest course; without circuity; operatlng by an Immediate connection or relation, instead of operating through a medium; the opposite of indirect
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The science of diplo-mas, or of ancient writings and documents; the art of judging of ancient charters, public documents, diplomas, etc., and discriminating the true from the false, webster
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A person subject to dipsomania, one who has an irresistible de-sire for alcoholic liquors. See Insanity
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The science which treats of the relations and Interests of nations with nations
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In internation-al law. A general name for all classes of persons charged with the negotiation, trans-action, or superintendence of the diplomatic business of one nation at the court of an-other. See Rev. St. U. S. S 1674 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 1149
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The district over which a bishop exercised his spiritual functions
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In the civil law. A royal charter; letters patent granted by a prince or sovereign. Calvin
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In English law. The conslstorial courts of each diocese, exer-clslng geueral jurisdiction of all matters aris-lng locally within thelr respective limits, with the exception of places subject to peculiar jurisdiction; deciding all matters of spiritual discipline,—suspending or depriving clergymen,—and administering the other branches of the ecclesiastical law. 2 Steph. Comm. 672
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The territorial extent of a bishop’s jurisdiction. The circuit of every bishop’s jurisdiction. Co. Litt. 94; 1 Bl. Comm. 111
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In Spanish law. Money. Dincro contado, money counted, white, New Recop. b. 2, tlt. 13, c. 1,_| 1
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Belonging to a diocese; a bishop, as he stands related to his own clergy or flock
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In the civil law. Letters dlmissory or dismissory, commonly called “apostles,” (qua? vulgo apostoli dicuntur.) Dig. 50, 16, 106. See Apostoli, Apostles
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