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In old English law. A conversion of wood grounds into arable or pasture; an assarting. Cowell. See ASSART.

To destroy or impair the credibility of a person ; to impeach ; to lessenthe degree of credit to be accorded to a witness or document, as by impugning the veracityof the

The act by which the owner of an estate deprives a person of theright to inherit the same, who would otherwise be his heir.

Such as are dangerous or hurtful to the public peace and welfare by reason of their misconduct orvicious habits, and are therefore amendable to police regulation. The phrase is chietlyused in statutes,

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

One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands; one who is disseised.

Lat. In the civil law. A separation or division into parts; also analienation or sale. Sometimes applied to the act of a guardian in appropriating the property of his ward.

One of the portions into which an entire state or country may be divided,for judicial, political, or administrative purposes.The United States are divided into judicial districts, in each of which is established

L. Fr. Say over. The form of awarding a respotideas ouster, in the l’ear Books, M. 6 Edw. III. 49.

That which is susceptible of being divided.

A charge against vessels for the privilege of mooring to the wharves or inthe slips. People v. Roberts, 92 Cal. 659, 2S l’ac. 6S9. A pecuniary compensation for theuse of a dock

Fishermen that belong to dogger-ships.

The complete and absolute ownership of land; a paramount and individualright of property in land. People v. Shearer, 30 Cal. 658. Also the real estate so owned. The inherent sovereign power claimed

A term used in the civil and Scotch law, and thence in ours,relating to servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the service isconstituted ; as the tenement over

In feudal and ecclesiastical law. A lord, or feudal superior. Dominus rex,the lord the king; the king’s title as lord paramount. 1 Bl. Comm. 307. Dominuscapitalis, a chief lord. Dominus mcdius, a

A donee; a person to whom a gift is made; a purchaser. Bract fol. 13, et seq.

A reasonable marriage portion. A reasonable part of her husband’s estate, to which every widow is entitled, of lauds of which her husband may haveendowed her on the day of marriage. Co.

A gold coin of the United States of the value of twenty dollars.

Subject to be charged with dower ; as dowable lands. Entitled or entitling to dower. Thus, a dowable interest in lands is such as entitles the owner to have such lands charged

An abbreviation for “doctor;” also, in commercial usage, for “debtor,” Indicatingthe items or particulars in a bill or in an account-book chargeable against the person towhom the bill is rendered or in