Law Dictionary

Disinheritance; depriving one of an inheritance. Obsolete. See "Disinherison."

One who disinherits, or puts another out of his freehold. Obsolete.

A term applied to the nonfulfillment of commercial engagements. To dishonor a bill of exchange or a promissory note is to refuse or neglect to pay it at maturity. The holder is bou

The term “dishwasher” means a residential dishwasher subject to the energy conservation standards established by the Department of Energy.

To release from imprisonment.

To relinquish a corporate charter.

In civil law. The act of depriving a forced heir of the inheritance which the law gives him. In Louisiana, forced heirs may be deprived of their legitime, or legal portion, and of

The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit. By the common law, any one may give his estate to a stranger, and thereby disin

the heirs must take, unless they are 'disinherited by express words, or necessary implication.' 'Conjecture, nor uncertainty, shall never disinherit him.'… The rule of law gives th

To exhume a corpse.

Not concerned, in respect to possible gain or loss, in the result of the pending proceedings; impartial, not biased or prejudiced. Chase v. Rutland, 47 Vt. 393 ; In re Big Run, 137

The term "disinterested person" means a person that— (A) is not a creditor, an equity security holder, or an insider; (B) is not and was not, within 2 years before the da

One who has no interest in the cause or matter in issue, and who is lawfully competent to testify.

Separately; severally.

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

A statement in a pleading or indictment which expresses or charges a thing alternatively, with the conjunction "or;" for instance, an averment that defendant "murdered or caused to

In pleading. Allegations which charge a party disjunctively, so as to leave it uncertain what 'is relied on as the accusation against him. An indictment, information, or complaint

A condition depending upon the happening of but one of several events.

One which is placed between two contrar-*s, by the affirming of one of which the other is taken away. It is usually expressed by the word "or." See 3 Ves. 450; 7 Ves. 454; 2 Rop. L

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

The term "dislocated worker" means an individual who— (A) (i) has been terminated or laid off, or who has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment; (ii

The term “dislocation allowances” means the costs associated with relocation of the household of a member of the uniformed services and the member's dependents in relation to a cha

(pl.2)Mmane*.] L.Fr. t Tnmarried. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 22. Kelham.

Tenths; tithes, (q. v.) The original form of "dime," the name of the American coin.

To remove; to send out of court. Formerly used in chancery of the removal of a cause out of court without any further hearing. The term is now used in courts of law also.

The dismissal of an action, suit, motion, etc., is an order or judgment finally disposing of it by sending it out of court, though without a trial of the issues involved. Frederick

A dismissal entered in accordance with the agreement of the parlies, amounting to an adjudication of the matters in dispute between them or to a renunciation by the complainant of

It ordinarily is the undisputed right of a plaintiff to dismiss a bill before the final hearing.

A judgment of "Dismissed," ■ d on the Durant f Wall, if 19 L. Ed But a bill "di on motion of complainant does not 1 a; parte Loung June, 160 l ed. 2 A judgment of dl lintiff 'ils t

To redeem from mortgage.

Turbulent or riotous behavior; immoral or indecent conduct. The breach of the public decorum and morality.

Against public peace, good order, morals, decency or safety.

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

A term of loose and indefinite meaning (except as occasionally defined in statutes), but signifying generally any behavior that is contrary to law, and more particularly such as te

In criminal law. A house the inmates of which behave so badly as to become a nuisance to the neighborhood. One kept in such a way as to disturb or scandalize the public generally,

A class of offenders, subjects of police regulation, described in the statutes which punish them. See 4 Bl. Comm. 169. DISPARAGATION (Law Fr. disparagement). The matching an heir,

1. Inequality in rank. In old law, while a female infant was in ward, the guardian could tender a match " without disparagement" or inequality: lest she might marry the lord's enem

In old English law. To bring together those that are unequal, (dispares conferre;) to connect in an indecorous and unworthy manner; to connect In marriage those that are unequal in

In old English law. Disparagement. Hœredes maritentur absque disparagatione, heirs shall be married without disparagement Magna Charta, (9 Hen. III.) c. 6.

Same as Disparagement.

To permit a disparagement.

In old English law. An injury by union or comparison with some person or thing of inferior rank or excellence. Marriage without disparagement was marriage to one of suitable rank a

Fr. To disparage. Disparata non debent jungi. Things unlike ought not be joined. Jenk. Cent. 24, marg.

In old Scotch law. Inequality in blood, honor, dignity, or otherwise. Skene de Verb. Sign.

Dissimilar things ought not to be joined. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 24.

To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert a park into ordinary ground.

As used in charter-parties, relative to the discharge of vessels, has frequently been the subject of definition. Customary or usual dispatch. In accordance or consistently with all

“dispatching service employee” means an operator, train dispatcher, or other train employee who by the use of an electrical or mechanical device dispatches, reports, transmits, rec

A message, letter or order sent with speed on affairs of state; a telegraphic message. In maritime law. Diligence, due activity, or proper speed in the discharge of a cargo; the op

In English law. To deprive a person of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis. When a person has been admitted to sue in forma pauperis, and before the suit is ended it appears t

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

A dispensation is the provident relaxation of a malum prohibitum weighed from utility or necessity; and it is conceded by law to the king on acoount of the impossibility of forekno

A dispensation is a wound, because it wounds common right.

A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an Individual. In the United States, no power exists, except In the legislature, to dispense with law; and then it is not so muc

The term “dispense” means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by, or pursuant to the lawful order of, a practitioner, including the prescribin

The term “dispenser”— (A) means a retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, a group of chain pharmacies under common ownership and control that do not act as a wholesale distributor, or

Congress, by the use of the words 'dispensing physicians', meant to exclude physicians administering to patients whom they personally attend. The physician must be one who manufact

For the purpose of this section, the term “dispersion technique” includes any intermittent or supplemental control of air pollutants varying with atmospheric conditions.

To scandalize or disparage. Blount.

dispitz, I. fr. Contempt.

Used in shipping articles, and, when applied to an officer, meaning properly to disrate, not to discharge. Potter v. Smith, 103 Mass. 68.

The term “displaced adult” means an individual 21 years of age or older who is displaced from the habitual residence of that individual as a result of a declared event.

The term “displaced child” means an individual under 21 years of age who is displaced from the habitual residence of that individual as a result of a declared event.

As used in this section the terms “displaced family”, “displaced families”, and “displaced person” shall mean a family or families, or a person, displaced from an urban renewal are

As used in this section the terms “displaced family”, “displaced families”, and “displaced person” shall mean a family or families, or a person, displaced from an urban renewal are

The term “displaced homemaker” means an individual who— (i) is an adult; (ii) has not worked full-time, full-year in the labor force for a number of years, but has during such year

the term “displaced individual” means an individual displaced by an emergency or major disaster; and

any person who, on or after January 27, 1971, moves from real property, or moves his personal property from real property, as a result of the acquisition of such real property, in

The term “displacing agency” means any Federal agency carrying out a program or project, and any State, State agency, or person carrying out a program or project with Federal finan

In Scotch law. A technical word essential to the conveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, however clear may be the meaning of the party. Paterson,

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

Lat To dispose of, grant or convey. Disponet, he grants or alienates. Jus disponendi, the right of disposition, i. e., of transferring the title to property.

that part of the earnings of any individual remaining after the deduction from those earnings of any amounts required by law to be withheld.

current monthly income received by the debtor," excluding certain payments received for child support, "less amounts reasonably necessary to be expended" on three categories of exp

“disposable pay” means that part of pay of any individual remaining after the deduction from those earnings of any amounts required by law to be withheld; and / For the purpose of

That portion of a man's property which he is free to dispose of by wlll to beneficiaries other than his wife and children. By the ancient common law, this amounted to one-third of

the total monthly retired or retainer pay to which a member is entitled .

The term “disposable retired pay” means the total monthly retired pay to which a member is entitled less amounts which— (i) are owed by that member to the United States for previou

a method for the permanent and terminal disposition of high-level nuclear waste.

The terms “disposal package” and “package” mean the primary container that holds, and is in contact with, solidified high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or other radi

To alienate or direct the ownership of property, as, disposition by will. Elston v. Schilling, 42 N. Y. 79; see Fling v. Goodall, 40 N. H. 219; Phelps v. Harris, 101 U. S. 3S0, 25

a power to make partition, holds, in view of the opinion of the Supreme Court of Mississippi on the precise point in a case between the same parties, although not announced under s

These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for "sound mind," and "testamentary capacity," (q. v.)

The mental capacity to know and understand what disposition he may wish to make of his property, and upon whom he will bestow his bounty. 117 111. 321. Testamentary capacity {q. v.

Except as provided in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), for purposes of this part, the term “disposition” includes a sale, exchange, gift, or a transfer of legal title, but does not in

The term “disposition of the converted property” means the destruction, theft, seizure, requisition, or condemnation of the converted property, or the sale or exchange of such prop

Such as originate, transfer, or extinguish rights, known respectively as investitive, translative, and divestitive facts. These terms were coined by Bentham, and have not found the

See Possession, Dispossession.

Ouster; a wrong that carries with it the amotion of possession. An act whereby the wrongdoer gets the actual occupation of the land or hereditament. It includes abatement, intrusio

Summary process by a landlord to oust the tenant and regain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of the conditions of the lease. Of local origin and c

In this subparagraph, the term “disproportionate patient percentage” means, with respect to a cost reporting period of a hospital, the sum of— (I) the fraction (expressed as a perc

To refute; to prove to be false or erroncous; not necessarily by mere denial, but by affirmative evidenco to the contrary. Irsch v. Irsch, 12 N. Y. Civ. Proa R. 182.

In old English law. Not answerable. Co. Litt. 27b, 53; 1 Steph. Com. 245; 2 Crabb's Real Prop. 47, § 1000. Not punishable. "This murder is dispunishable." 1 Leon. 270.

The term “disputable item” means any item of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit if the taxpayer— (i) has a reasonable basis for its treatment of such item, and (ii) reasonabl

A presumption of law, which may be rebutted or disproved. Best, Pres. § 25; Burr. Circ. Ev. 47. DISPUTATIO FORI (Lat.) Argument in court. Du Cange. DISRATIONARE (Law Lat.; Law Fr.

For purposes of this section, the term “disputable tax” means the amount of tax specified at the time of the deposit as the taxpayer's reasonable estimate of the maximum amount of

An argument before the court.

A fact is properly said to be in dispute when it is alleged by one party and denied by the other, and by both with some show of reason. Appeal of Knight, 19 Pa. 494.

The term “disputed area” means the approximately 36,164 acres of land, including the minerals, located between the 107th meridian on the east and the 1891 survey line on the west f

“dispute resolution communication” means any oral or written communication prepared for the purposes of a dispute resolution proceeding, including any memoranda, notes or work prod