Category: D

To defame; vilify; exhibit contempt for. In England it Is a criminal offenseto “deprave” the Lord’s supper or the Book of Common Prayer. Steph. Crim. Dig. 99.

Descent; in the descent See FOBMEDON.

Hopeless; worthless. This term is used In Inventories and schedules ofassets, particularly by executors, etc., to describe debts or claims which are consideredimpossible or hopeless of collection. See Schultz v. Pulver, 11

A term used in old English law, generally in connection with waste,and having, according to some, the same meaning. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 385; 3 Bl.Comm. 223. Britton, however, makes a distinction

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To set at liberty, to free from prison.

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

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.

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.

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

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