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The anatomical examination of a dead body by cutting into pieces or exscinding one or more parts or organs, wehle v. Accident […]

In maritime law. To de-prive a seaman or petty officer of hls “rating” or rank; to reduce to a lower rate or […]

E, or DIRATIONARE Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A conflict or controversy; a conflict of claims or rights; an assertion of a right, claim, or demand on one side, met […]

To divest or deprive of qualifications; to incapacitate; to render ineligible or unfit; as, in speaking of the “disqualification” of a judge […]

In old English law. Not answerable. Co. Litt 27 b, 53. 1 Steph. Comm. 245. Not punishable. “This mur-der is dispunishable.” 1 […]

In the civil law. Discussion or argument before a court. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 38; Dlg. 1, 2, 2, 5 Source: Black’s […]

ouster; a wrong that carries with it the amotion of possession. An act whereby the wrong-doer gets tbe actual occupation of the […]

To refute; to prove to be false or erroneous; not necessarily by mere denial, but by affirmative evidence to the contrary. Irsch […]

Such as pro-duce or bring about the origination, transfer, or extinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which […]

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 […]

These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for “sound mind,” and “testamentary capacity,” (q. v.) Source: Black’s Law […]

In Scotch law. A deed of alienation by which a right to property is conveyed. Bell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

To alienate or direct the ownership of property, as disposition by will. Used also of the determination of suits. Called a word […]

That portlon of a man’s property which he is free to dispose of by will to beneficiaries other than his wife and […]

In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to the conveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent […]

Lat To dispose of, grant, or convey. Disponet, he grants or alienates. Jus disponendi, the right of disposition, i. e., of transferring […]

To scandalize or dis-parage. Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This term, as nsed in ship-ping articles, means “disrate,” and does not import authority of the master to discharge a second mate, […]

or DESPATCH. A mes-ttage, letter, or order sent with speed on af-fairs of state; a telegraphic message Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

An exemption from some laws; a permission to do something forbidden; an allowance to omit something commanded; the canonlstic name for a […]

To connect unequally; to match unsuitably. Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert it into ordinary ground Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Disparagement. tiaredes maritentur absque disparagatione, heirs shall be married with-oat disparagement. Magna Charta, (9 Hen. III.) c. 6 […]

L. Fr. Disparage-ment; the matching an heir, etc., in mar-riage, under his or her degree or condition, or against the rules of […]