Category: D

In military law. The dismissal of an army or body of troops from active service.

(Lat “God’s penny.”) Earnest money; money given as a token of thecompletion of a bargain. It differs from arrliw in this: that arrhx is a part of theconsideration, while the denarius Dei

In old English law. The hedge inclosing a deer park.

In practice. In ancient usage, to testify as a witness; to give evidenceunder oath. In modern usage. To make a deposition ; to give evidence in the shape of a deposition; to

Seems to mean, literally, to confound aud disorder, or to turn out ofcourse, or displace; as deraignmeut or departure out of religion, in St. 31 lieu. VIII. c.6. In the common law,

To leave or quit with an intention to cause a permanent separation; toforsake utterly ; to abandon.

The act of betrothing persons to each other.

In the civil law. That con dition of fact under which one can exercise hispower over a corporeal thing at his pleasure, to the exclusion of all others. It forms thesubstance of

Wasteful use of the property of a deceased person, as for extravagant funeral or other unnecessaryexpenses. 2 Bl. Comm. 508.

To pass or be transferred from one person to another; to fall on, oraccrue to, one person as the successor of another; as, a title, right, office, liability. Theterm is said to

In Louisiana, this term is used in a technical sense, and means to pronounceorally what is destined to be written at the same time by another. It is used inreference to nuncupative

In the civil law. Holidays. Dig. 2, 12, 2, 9.

In an agreement for submission to arbitration, “difference” meansdisagreement or dispute. Fravert v. F’esler, 11 Colo. App. 387, 53 Pac. 288; PioneerMfg. Co. v. Phcenix Assur. Co., 106 N. C. 28, 10

(Fr. De lege efectus, Lat.) Outlawed.

In mining law. The line of declination of strata; the angle which measures thedeviation of a mineralized vein or lode from the vertical plane; the slope or slant of avein, away from

The want of legal ability or capacity to exercise legal rights, eitherspecial or ordinary, or to do certain acts with proper legal effect or to enjoy certainprivileges or powers of free action.

In Roman law. The argument of a cause by the counsel on both sides. Calvin.

In the civil law. A proceeding, at the instance of a surety, by which the creditor is obliged to exhaust theproperty of the principal debtor, towards the satisfaction of the debt before

Lat. In the civil law. Separately; severally. The opposite of conjunct im, (q. v.) Inst. 2, 20, 8.

To connect unequally; to match unsuitably