Category: D

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

A kind of dower in England, regulated by custom, where the quantity allowed the wife differed from theproportion of the common law; as that the wife should have half the husband’s lands;or,

v. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture byadapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them, when necessary,by artificial ditches. People v. Parks, 58 Cal.

This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but matters floating at random, without any known or discoverable ownership, which. If cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but

The right of a creditor to pursue the debtor’s property into the hands of third persons for the enforcement of his claim.