Category: D

The science which treats of the relations and interests of nations with nations.Negotiation or intercourse between nations through their representatives. The rules,customs, and privileges of representatives at foreign courts.

These are acts of parliament, restraining and regulating theexercise of a right or the power of alienation; the terra is specially applied to 1 Eliz. c.19, and similar acts restraining the power

The repudiation or renunciation of a right or claim vested in a personor which he had formerly alleged to be his. The refusal, waiver, or denial of an estate orright offered to

In English law. An enrolled assurance barring an entail,pursuant to 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74.

One which is placed between two contraries, by the affirmingof one of which the other is taken away; it is usually expressed by the word “or.”

In old Scotch law. Inequality in blood, honor, dignity, or otherwise. Skene de Verb. Sign.Disparata non debcnt jungi. Things unlike ought not to be joined. Jeuk. Cent 24, marg.

To refute; to prove to be false or erroneous; not necessarily by meredenial, but by affirmative evidence to the contrary. Irsch v. Irsch, 12 N. Y. Civ. Proc. R. 182.

Contrariety of opinion; refusal to agree with something already stated oradjudged or to an act previously performed.The term is most commonly used in American law to denote the explicitdisagreement of one or

Seizure; the act of distraining or making a distress.

Lat. A distress; a distraint. Cowell.

Lat. With a different vtow, purpose, or design; in a differentview or point of view; by a different course or process. 1 W. Bl. 89; 4 Kent, Comm. 211, note.

A divorce from table and bed, or from bed and board. Apartial or qualified divorce, by which the parties are separated and forbidden to live orcohabit together, without affecting the marriage itself.

The title of a work written by St. Germain in the reign ofHenry VIII. in which many principles of the common law are discussed iu a popularmanner. It is in the form

Sax. A wound. Spelman.

In old English law. A damsel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 20,

In old English law. Ancient demesne. Bract, fol. 3096.

An ancient house built or appointed by King Henry III. for suchJews as were converted to the Christian faith; but King Edward III., who expelled theJews from the kingdom, deputed the place

Lat. In the civil law. A gift; a free gift Calvin. Distinguished from munus. Dig. 50, 16, 194.

n. In Spanish law. The marriage portion of a wife. White, New Recop. b. 1,tit. 6, c. 1. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account of marriage, orfor

In patent law. An application of a principle or process, previously known and applied, to some new use, but which does not lead to a new result or the production of a