A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In English law. A deed by which a tenant in tail may alienate absolutely.

To deprive or divest places or persons of a privilege or franchise, v. Franchise.

In English law. To free lands from that quality of gavelkind tenure by which they descend equally among all the sons of the tenant v. Oavelhind.

In old English law. The depriving of an order or dignity. V. Degradation.

disinherison, I fr. and eng. In old English law. A depriving or putting out of an inheritance; disinheriting.

To refuse to accept a bill of exchange, or to refuse or neglect to pay a bill or note at maturity.

2. In the civil law. Separately; severally.

Disjoining; separating. Disjunctive allegations: alletwo contraries by the afl Srming of one away.

1. 1. In old English law. Incapacity; disability.

I. fr. The tenths of all spiritual tenths; tithes, v. Decimce; Tenths.

To send away; to send out of

Conduct contrary house the inmates of which behave so the neighborhood. Disorderly person: regulation for misconduct which affects

/. L, Disparage. In old those that are unequal; to connect in in blood and parentage.

1 1, Disparagation, I fr., law. An unequal alliance; an unsuitable an injury done to a ward by marrying inferior degree.

I. I. In old Scots law. nity or otherwise.

I. Things

In English law. To convert a

I. I. In old English law. A were kept under the key of the housewife

In English law. An mission to do something forbidden, manded.

dispitz, I. fr. Contempt.

In Scots law. To grant, convey

I. To dispose of, or convey; to V. Oujus est, etc

To part with, as by sale, gift or

In Scots law. A deed of

A species of injury to real deprivation of possession, v. Ouster.

In old English law. Not

A presumption butted or disproved.

I. In the civil law. court

I I. In old English law. tablish a claim, charge or accusation.

I I. In old English law. making good of a claim or charge. of which the other is taken livings granted to the crown; court; to dispose of finally. to law. Disorderly house: a badly

disseysina, I. I. In old English law. Disseisin.

To deprive of seisin; to put out of possession wrongfully; to oust of a freehold, v. Disseisin.

A person who is disseised.

disseizin. Deprivation of seisin.

disseysii-e, i!. I. In old English law. To disseisa

disseysitor, 1.1. A disseisor. Disseisitus, disseysitns: a disseisee.

He who disseises.

I A passing over. Dissimulatione tollitur injuria: an injury is extinguished by the forgiveness or reconcilement of the party injured.

I To dissolve, as a contract or connection; to unloose a legal bond or tie; to set free from obligation, v. Eodem, etc.

A putting an end to, as by unloosing some legal bond, or setting parties free from its effect. Applied to contracts, corporations, partnerships, etc.

I. I. In old English law. Distinctly and openly; formal words in writs of error, referring to the return required.

I. To distinguish. Disting'uenda sunt tempera: times are to be distinguished; — distingne tempera et cencordabis leges: times are to be distinguished; distinguish times and' you wi

1. In the civil law. The sale of a pledge by a creditor. V. Distrahere.

I. In the civil law. To sell, particularly at auction; to separate, to dissolve, to draw apart. Distraliere pignas: to sell a pledge in payment of a debt

distrein. To take and keep the property of another as a pledge, to compel the performance of some duty, as the payment of rent, the performance of services, etc.

distreiner. A person who distrains.

/. fr. To distrain. Distreint: distrained.

The taking of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer to procure a satisfaction for a wrong committed, — as for non-payment of rent, or injury done by cattle; the ch

A division among several; the giving to each of several his or her share, as, the division of the effects of an intestata In English law. Distributions, statutes eft the statute of

I. I In old English law. A distress, distraint or distraining; the right of distress; a thing distrained; a circuit or territory within which the power of distraining might be exer

I. I. In old English law. A distress; a distraint; a district; the place within which the power of distraining might be exercised; a person distrained on. In feudal law. The power

I. I In English law. You distrain; a writ directed to the sheriff commajiding him to distrain upon the goods and chattels of the defendant in order to compel his appearance; a firs

I. In feudal and old English law. To distrain; to coerce or compel; literally, to bind fast

I In old English law. Diversity; difference; unlikencss.

/n A treatise on courts and their jurisdiction, written in Frencti, probably in the reign of Edward III., and first printed in 1525, — attributed to Fitzherbert

A plea in bar of execution that the prisoner is not the person convicted.

In Scots law. A criminal information or accusation.

A turning aside, v. Divert.

I. With a different view, or design; in a different view; by a different course or process, v. Alio intuitu.

To turn aside; to alter the course of things.

t In the Roman law. To turn aside; to go away from; to leave.

V. Devest.

1. 1 In old English law. A thing to be divided; an indent- ' ure; a part of an indenture

I. To divine; to conjecture; to foretell Divinatio: a conjecturing or guessing. Divinatio, non interpretatio est, quae omniuo recedit a litera: that is guessing, not interpretation

devisa, I I. In old English law. A division or partition; a division or distribution of goods by will; a will or testament of goods or chattels; a division or boundary between neig

A contract the consideration of which is by its term^s susceptible of apportionment on either side so as to correspond to the unascertained consideration on the other.

1. 1. In old English law. Severally; separately;

I A divided empire or jurisdiction; a jurisdiction shared between two tribunals, or exercised by them alternately, as, the jurisdiction of courts of common law and courts of admira

The separation of husband and wife by the sentence of the law. Divorce a mensa et thoro: a divorce from table and bed, or from bed and board, — a partial or qualified divorce, by w

I. In the civil and old English law. Divorce; a separation of husband and wife. Divortium sine causa, or sine ulla querela: a divorce without cause, or without any complaint. Do, I

I fr. In old English event beyond human foresight or

To take away the privilege which one has already exercised.

An interference with the enjoyment of an incorporeal hereditament. Disturbance of cominou: doing any act by which a right of common is incommoded or diminished. Disturbance of fran

I fr. Say over, — the form of awarding a respondeat ouster.

I. I. In old English law. A payment by forest tenants to the lord, for leave to plough and sow in time of pannage or mast Dans et retlnens nil dat, I. One who gives and retains [po

I. I. In old English law. The twelfth hand; twelve hands, or twelve-hand; the oath of twelve men, including the defendant himself, by whom a defendant was allowed to make his law.

I. A doubling. patitnr: the law does not In the civil law. The defendant's corresponding to the rejoinder

A fault in pleading distinct allegations or answers plea.

I In the civil and old English law. To show; to set forth; to make out a case by proper statements; to show or establish by proof.

An enclosed place in a criminal court, occupied by a prisoner brought in for trial; the space between two wharves.

docquet, doggpt, doqiiet. To abstract and enter in a book; to make an abridged entry in a Ui action in a book kept for that purpose.

docqnet, dogget. A brief or abstract in writing; an abridged entry in an action; a list or register of such abridged entries; a list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or tria

I In the civil law. A document; an instrument

The title of a work written by St Germain, in the reign of Henry VIIL, in which many principles of the common law are discussed in a popular manner.

The popular name of the courts and offices occupied by the College of Doctors of Law, on the southern side of St. Paul's churchyard, London.

Written instruments adduced for the purpose of showing or proving a claim or title, or other matter in controversy; evidences of title.

In Scots law. An agent or attorney.

doyne, I fr. Give; given; I give. v. Done.

In old English law. A part or portion. Dole-meadow: a meadow in which several persons had a share. In Scots law. Criminal intent; evil design.

2. Capable of criminal intention; capable of distinguishing between good and evil, — applied to a child between seven and fourteen who, contrary to the presumption, appears to have

sax. Judgment, — hence the English doom. v. Dome. ])om. Proc. Domus Procerum, or Domo Procerum; the House of Lords.

Ownership of land; immediate or absolute ownership; paramount or ultimate ownership; an estate which one has in his own right; land of which one is the absolute owner, v. Eminent d

domboc, sax. Dome-book or doom-book, — a name given, among the Saxons, to a code of laws. v. Dome-book; Domesday.

doom. In old English law. Judgment or sentence. In old Scots law. Judgment; sentence; doom.

A book or code said to have been compiled by direction of Alfred, for the use of the kingdom; containing, it is supposed, the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for

doomsday, domesdei. A record in two volumes, made by direction of William the Conqueror, containing the details of a survey of the entire kingdoni, except the counties of Cumberlan

In English law. Men appointed to pronounce judgment in suits and controversies; an inferior kind of judges anciently so called; suitors in a court of a manor in ancient demesne.

Relating or belonging to one's home, state or country. Domestic assigijiment: an assignment for the benefit of creditors within the state of the debtor. Domestic attachment: an att

domicile. The place where a person has his home; a residence at a particular place, accompanied with positive or presumptive proof of an intention to remain there for an unlimited

I. In old English law. Domicil; residence, v. DomicU.