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In construing a policy of life insurance, it is generally true that, before any temporary ailment can be called a “disease,” it […]

A liberty or privilege al-lowed to a judge, within the confines of right and Justice, but independent of narrow and unbending rules […]

Snch as are not marked out on fixed lines, but allow a certain amount of discretion in their exercise. Those which cannot […]

To destroy or impair the credibility of a person; to Impeach; to lessen the degree of credit to be accorded to a […]

A difference between two things which ought to be identical, as between one writing and another; a varl-ance, (q. v Source: Black’s […]

Not married; not subject to the disabilities of a coverture. It applies equally to a maid and a widow Source: Black’s Law […]

In a general sense, the ascertainment of that which was previously unknown; the disclosure or coming to light of what was previously […]

occasional; intermittent; characterized by separate repeated acts; as, discontinuous easements and servi-tudes. See Easement Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In a general sense, an ai-lowance or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever. In a more limited and […]

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

The termination or suspension of an estate-tail, in consequence of the act of the tenant in tail, in conveying a larger estate […]

In Scotch law. Dis-avowal of tenure; denial that one holds lands of another. Bell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To deprive commonable lands of their commonable quality, by in-closing and appropriating or improving them Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The opposite of charge; hence to release; liberate; annul; unburden; dis incumber Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. To discharge, to unload; as a vessel. Carcare Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

In old English law. A conversion of wood grounds into arable or pasture; an assarting. Cowell. See Assart Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Money expended by an executor, guardian, trustee, etc., for tlie benefit of the estate in his hands, or in connection with its […]

To repudiate the unanthor-. lzed acts of an agent; to deny the authority by which he assumed to act Source: Black’s Law […]

In England, to deprive a bar-ilster permanently of the privileges, of hls position; it is analogous to striking an nttor-ney off the […]

To disable a person Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In ecclesiastic-al law. This is where the appropriation of a benefice is severed, either by the patron presenting a clerk or by […]

To restore to tbeir former condition lands which have been turned into forests. To remove from the operation of the forest laws. […]

Difference of opinion or want of uniformity or concurrence of views; as, a disagreement among the members of a jury, among the […]