Seizure; the act of dis-training or making a distress
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To sell; to draw apart; to dissolve a contract; to divorce. Calvin.
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To take as a pledge prop-erty of another, and keep the same until he performs his obligation or until the property is replevied by the sheriff. It was used to secure an appearance in court, paymeut of reut, performance of services, etc. 3 Bl. Comm. 231; Fltzh. Nat. Brev. 32, B, C, 223. Boyd v. Howden, 3 Daly (N. Y.) 457; Byers v. Ferguson, 41 or. 77, 68 Pac. 5
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A term used in the statutes of Illinois (Rev. Laws, Iii. 1833, p. 332) and New Hampshire (Dig. N. H. Laws, 1830, p. 339) to express a state of insanity. Snyder v. Snyder, 142 111. 60, 31 N. E. 303
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Lat in the civil law. A separation or division Into parts; also an alienation or sale. Sometimes applled to the act of a guardian In appropriating the prop-erty of his ward
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To poiut out an essen-tial difference; to prove a case cited as ap-pllcable, inapplicable
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In criminal law. To ad-vise and procure a person not to do an act
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To subject to a process of distillatiou, i. e., vaporizing the more vola-tlle parts of a substance and then condensing the vapor so formed. In law, the term is chiefly used in connection with the manufacture of intoxicating liquors
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To terminate; abrogate; cancel; annul; disintegrate. To release or unloose the binding force of anything. As to “dissolve a corporation,” to “dissolve an Injunction.” See Dissolution
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A bond given to obtain the dissolution of a legal writ or process, particularly an attachment or an injunction, and conditioned to indemnify the opposite party or to abide the Judgment to be given. See Sanger v. Hibbard, 2 Ind. T. 547, 53 S. W. 330
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The crown may dissolve parliament either in person or by proclamation; the dissolution is usually by proclamation, after a prorogation. No parliament may last for a longer period than seven years. Septennial Act, 1 Geo. I. c. 38. Under 6 Anne, c. 37, upon a demise of the crown, parliament became ipso facto dissolved six months afterwards, but under the Reform Act, 1867, its continuance is now nowise affected by such demise. May, Pari. Pr. (6th Ed.) 48. Brown.
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Protestant seceders from the established church of England. They are of many denominations, principally Presby-terians, Independents, Methodists, and Bap-tists; but, as to church government, the Baptists are Independents
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Lat in the civil law. The mutual agreement of the partles to a slmple contract obligation that it shall be dissolved or annulled; technically, an un-doing of the consensus which created the obligation. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 541
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Contrariety of opinion; re-fusal to agree with something already stated or adjudged or to an act previously per-formed
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one who puts another out of the possession of hls lands wrougfully
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A woman who unlawfully pats another out of his land
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Dispossession; a depriva-tlon of possession; a privation of seisin; a usurpation of the right of seisin and posses-slon, and an exercise of such powers and privileges of ownership as to keep out or dis-place him to whom these rightfully belong. 3 washb. Real Prop. 125; Probst v. Trustees, 129 U. S. 182, 9 Sup. Ct 263, 32 L. Ed. 642; Bond v. O’Gara, 177 Mass. 139, 58 N. E. 275, 83 Am. St. Rep. 265; Moody v. Fleming, 4 Ga. 115, 48 Am. Dec. 210; Claw v. Bromagham, 9 Cow. (N. V.) 553; wash-burn v. Cutter, 17 Mlnn. 368 (Gil. 335
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A female disseisor; a disselsoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 12, $ 4
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One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands; one who is disseised
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In old Scotch law. Dis-seisin ; dispossession. Skene
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