The purpose to which it is intended an article or a fund shall be applied. A testator gives a destination to a legacy when he prescribes the specific use to which it shall he put
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This word, in its original and most simple acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord; it is synonymous with mon-arch ; bnt taken in bad part, as it is usually t employed, it signifies a tyrant. In some states, despot is the title given to the sover-eign, as king is given in others. Enc. Lond
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This word involves, in Its t signification, violence or clandestine means’ by which one is deprived of that which he ” possesses. Its Spanish equivalent, despojar, is a term used in Mexican law. Sunol v. Hepburn, 1 Cal. 268
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The act of betroth-ing persons to each other
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Contempt See Despite. A contemptible person. Fleta, llb. 4, c. 5
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A possessory actlon of the Mexican law. It is brought to recover pos-session of Immovable property, of which one has been despoiled (despojado) by another
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Hopeless; worthless. This term is used in inventories and sched-ules of assets, particularly by executors, etc., to describe debts or claims which are con-sidered Impossible or hopeless of collection. See Schultz v. Pulver, 11 wend. (N. Y.) 365
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A term used in the Span-lsh law, denoting the act by which the bound-arles of an estate or portion of a country are determined
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In Spanish law. Persons deprived of memory, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 2, c. 1, g 4
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A description or de-scriptive expression hy which a person or thing is denoted in a will without using the name
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This term, used in a will in re-lation to the management and distribution of property, has been Interpreted by the courts with different shades of meaning, varying from the mere expression of a preference to a positive command.’ See McMurry v. Stanley, 69 Tex. 227, 6 S. W. 412; Stewart v. Stewart, .61 N. J. Eq. 25, 47 Atl. 633; In re Marti’a Estate, 132 Cal. 666, 61 Pac. 964; weber v. Bryant, 161 Mass. 400, 37 N. E. 203; Appeal of City of Philadelphia, 112 Pa. 470, 4 Atl. 4; Meehan v. Brennan, 16 App. Dlv. 395, 45 N. ¥. Supp. 57; Brasher v. Marsh, 15 Ohlo SL 111; Major v. Herndon, 78 Ky. 123
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In the law of evidence. Pur-pose or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind. Burrill. Circ. Ev. 331; State v. Grant, 86 Iowa, 216, 53 N. W. 120; Ernest v. State, 20 Fla. 388; Hogan v. State, 36 wis. 226
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Thedescrlp-tion of a person or a party to a deed or con-tract
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The act hy which a per-son abandons and forsakes, without justlfl-catlon, or unauthorized, a station or con-dition of public or social life, renouncing its responsibilities and evading its duties
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In Spanish law. Dis-honor; injury; slander. Las Partidas, pt. 7, tit. 9, L 1, 6
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1. A delineation or ac-count of a particular subject by the recital of its characteristic accidents and qualities
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RT. To leave or quit with an in-tention to cause a permanent separation; to forsake utterly; to abandon
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Heredltary succession. Succession to the ownership of an estate by inheritance, or by any act of law, as distinguished from “purchase.” Tltle by descent is the title by whlch one person, upon the death of another, acquires the real estate of the latter as his heir at law. 2 Bl. Comm. 201; Com. Dig. “Descent,” A; Adams v. Akerlund, 168 111. 632, 48 N. E. 454; Starr v. Hamilton, 22 Fed. Cas. 1,107; In re Dona-hue’s Estate, 36 Cal. 332; Sbippen v. Izard, 1 Serg. A R. (Pa.) 224; Brower v. Hunt, 18 ohlo St. 338; Allen v. Bland, 134 Ind. 78, 33 N. E. 774
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Lat. De-ecriptlon of the person. By this is meant a word or phrase used merely for the purpose of identifying or pointing out the person lntended, and not as an intimatlou that the language In connection with which It occurs is to apply to hlm only in the official or technical character which might appear to be ln-dlcated by the word
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Capable of passing by descent, or of belng inherited or transmitted by devise, (spoken of estates, tltles, offices, and other property.) Collins v. Smlth, 105 Ga. 525, 31 S. E. 449
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In Mexican law. The dcsamortizacion of property is to take it oat of mortmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unloose it from the grasp, as it were, of ecclesiastical or civil corporations. The term has no equivalent in English. Hall, Mex. Law, S 749
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One who is descended from another; a person who proceeds from the body of another, such as a child, grandchild, etc., to the remotest degree. The term is the opposite of “ascendant,” (q. v
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