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or DISTRAINOR. He Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Seizure; the act of dis-training or making a distress Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To sell; to draw apart; to dissolve a contract; to divorce. Calvin. Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To take as a pledge prop-erty of another, and keep the same until he performs his obligation or until the property is […]

A term used in the statutes of Illinois (Rev. Laws, Iii. 1833, p. 332) and New Hampshire (Dig. N. H. Laws, 1830, […]

Lat in the civil law. A separation or division Into parts; also an alienation or sale. Sometimes applled to the act of […]

In old Eng Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To poiut out an essen-tial difference; to prove a case cited as ap-pllcable, inapplicable Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In criminal law. To ad-vise and procure a person not to do an act Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To subject to a process of distillatiou, i. e., vaporizing the more vola-tlle parts of a substance and then condensing the vapor […]

To terminate; abrogate; cancel; annul; disintegrate. To release or unloose the binding force of anything. As to “dissolve a corporation,” to “dissolve […]

A bond given to obtain the dissolution of a legal writ or process, particularly an attachment or an injunction, and conditioned to […]

In oontraots. The Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The crown may dissolve parliament either in person or by proclamation; the dissolution is usually by proclamation, after a prorogation. No parliament […]

Protestant seceders from the established church of England. They are of many denominations, principally Presby-terians, Independents, Methodists, and Bap-tists; but, as to […]

In old law. To break open a seal, whishaw Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civil law. The mutual agreement of the partles to a slmple contract obligation that it shall be dissolved or […]

Contrariety of opinion; re-fusal to agree with something already stated or adjudged or to an act previously per-formed Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

one who puts another out of the possession of hls lands wrougfully Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A woman who unlawfully pats another out of his land Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Dispossession; a depriva-tlon of possession; a privation of seisin; a usurpation of the right of seisin and posses-slon, and an exercise of […]

A female disseisor; a disselsoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 12, $ 4 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To dispossess; to deprive Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands; one who is disseised Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Scotch law. Dis-seisin ; dispossession. Skene Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)