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Displace

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

This term, as used in shipping articles, means "disrate," and does not import authority of the master to discharge a second mate, notwithstanding a usage in the whaling trade never to disrate an officer to a seaman.

Potter v. Smith, 103 Mass. 68.