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DETRACTION

The removal of property from one state to another upon a transfer of the title to it by will or inheritance. Frederickson v. Louisiana, 23 How. 445, 16 L. Ed. 577.

DEVISE

A testamentary disposition of land or realty; a gift of real property by the last will and testament of the donor. Scholle v. Scholle, 113 N. Y. 201, 21 N. E. 84;Ferebee

DIANATIC

A logical reasoning in a progressive manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond.

DIES DATUS IN BANCO

A day given in the bench, (or court of common pleas.) Bract, fols. 2576, 301. A day given in bank, as distinguished from a day at nisi prius. Co. Litt. 135.

DIES UTILES

Juridical days; useful or available days. A term of the Roman law,used to designate those especial days occurring within the limits of a prescribed periodof time upon which it was lawful, or

DILAPIDATION

A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the incumbentsuffers any edifices of his ecclesiastical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by

DINERO

In Spanish law. Money. Dincro contado, money counted. White, NewRecop. b. 2. tit. 13, c. 1,

DIRECTION

1. The act of governing; management; superintendence. Also the bodyof persons (called “directors”) who are charged with the management and administrationof a corporation or institution.2. The charge or instruction given by the

DISAVOW

To repudiate the unauthorized acts of an agent; to deny the authority bywhich he assumed to act.

DISCOVERT

Not married; not subject to the disabilities of a coverture. It applies equally to a maid and a widow.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT

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 tends to disturb the

DISPONO

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

DISSECTION

The anatomical examination of a dead body by cutting into pieces orexscinding one or more parts or organs. Wehle v. Accident Ass’n. 11 Misc. Rep. 36, 31N. Y. Supp. 865; Sudduth v.

DISTINGUISH

To point out an essential difference; to prove a case cited as applicable, inapplicable.

DISTURBER

If a bishop refuse or neglect to examine or admit a patron’s clerk,without reason assigned or notice given, he is styled a “disturber” by the law, and shaUnot have any title to

DIVINE SERVICE

Divine service was the name of a feudal tenure, by which thetenants were obliged to do some special divine services in certain; as to sing so manymasses, to distribute such a sum

DOCIMASIA PULMONUM

In medical jurisprudence. The hydrostatic test used chieflyin cases of alleged infanticide to determine whether the child was born alive or dead,which consists in immersion of the foetal lungs in water. If

DOG-LATIN

The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system.

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