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Deraign

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Seems to mean, literally, to confound and. disorder, or to turn out of a course, or displace; as deraignment or departure ou€ of religion, in St. 81 Hen. VIIL e.

6.

Tn the common law, the word is used generally in the sense of to prove; viz., to deraign a right, deraign the warranty, etc. Glanv. lib.

2, ¢. 6; Fitzh. Nat, Brev. 146.

Perhaps this word “deraign,” and the word “deraignment,” derived from it, may be used in the sense of to prove and a proving, by disproving of what is asserted in opposition to truth and fact.

Jacob.