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The purpose to which it is intended an article or a fund shall be applied. A testator gives a destination to a […]

This word, in its original and most simple acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord; it is synonymous with mon-arch ; bnt taken […]

L. Fr. Unreasonable. Britt c. 121 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This word involves, in Its t signification, violence or clandestine means’ by which one is deprived of that which he ” possesses. […]

The act of betroth-ing persons to each other Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Contempt See Despite. A contemptible person. Fleta, llb. 4, c. 5 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A possessory actlon of the Mexican law. It is brought to recover pos-session of Immovable property, of which one has been despoiled […]

Hopeless; worthless. This term is used in inventories and sched-ules of assets, particularly by executors, etc., to describe debts or claims which […]

Contempt. Despite, contempts. Kelham Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A term used in the Span-lsh law, denoting the act by which the bound-arles of an estate or portion of a country […]

In Spanish law. Persons deprived of memory, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 2, c. 1, g 4 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A description or de-scriptive expression hy which a person or thing is denoted in a will without using the name Source: Black’s […]

This term, used in a will in re-lation to the management and distribution of property, has been Interpreted by the courts with […]

In the law of evidence. Pur-pose or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind. Burrill. Circ. Ev. 331; […]

Thedescrlp-tion of a person or a party to a deed or con-tract Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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, […]

In Spanish law. Dis-honor; injury; slander. Las Partidas, pt. 7, tit. 9, L 1, 6 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

1. A delineation or ac-count of a particular subject by the recital of its characteristic accidents and qualities Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

RT. To leave or quit with an in-tention to cause a permanent separation; to forsake utterly; to abandon Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Heredltary succession. Succession to the ownership of an estate by inheritance, or by any act of law, as distinguished from “purchase.” Tltle […]

Lat. De-ecriptlon of the person. By this is meant a word or phrase used merely for the purpose of identifying or pointing […]

Descent; in the descent See Formedon Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Capable of passing by descent, or of belng inherited or transmitted by devise, (spoken of estates, tltles, offices, and other property.) Collins […]

In Mexican law. The dcsamortizacion of property is to take it oat of mortmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unloose it from […]

One who is descended from another; a person who proceeds from the body of another, such as a child, grandchild, etc., to […]