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In pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a formerpleading, and assume a new one. See DEPARTURE.In maritime law. To leave a port; to be out of a port. To

A naked bailment of goods to be kept for the depositor without reward,and to be returned when he shall require it .Tones, Bailm. 30, 117; National Bank v.Washington County Bank, 5 Hun

In Spanish law. Law or right. Derecho eomun, common law. The civil lawis so called. A right. Derechos, rights. Also, specifically, an impost laid upon goods orprovisions, or upon persons or lands,

The act by which a person abandons and forsakes, without justification,or unauthorized, a station or condition of public or social life, renouncing its responsibilities and evading its duties.In matrimonial and divorce law.

In Spanish law. Espousals ; mutual promises of future marriage. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 6, c. 1,

The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. See DETAINER.

They have wasted. A term applied in old English law to waste byexecutors and administrators, and to the process issued against them therefor. Cowell.See DEVASTAVIT.

L. Fr. Dies; deceases. Bend- loe, 5.

A magistrate invested with unlimited power, and created in times of nationaldistress and peril. Among the Romans, he continued in office for six months only,and had unlimited power and authority over both

In old English practice. A day of grace, courtesy, or favor. Co. Litt 1346. The quarto die post was sometimes so called. Id. 135a.

For the meaning of the phrase “difficult and extraordinary case,” asused in New York statutes and practice, see Standard Trust Co. v. New York, etc., R.Co., 178 N. Y. 407, 70 N.

In old English law. Pottage formerly made for the king’s table on thecoronation day. There was a tenure in serjeantry, by which lands were held of the kingby the service of finding

In the civil law. A royal charter; letters patent granted by a prince orsovereign. Calvin.An instrument given by colleges and societies on the conferring of any degrees.State v. Gregory, 83 Mo. 130,

In its ordinary sense, to disable is to cause a disability, (q. v.). In the old language of pleading, to disable is to take advantage of one’s own or another’s disability. Thus,

The opposite of charge; hence to release ; liberate; annul; unburden; disincumber.In the law of contracts. To cancel or unloose the obligation of a contract; to makean agreement or contract null and

In construing a policy of life insurance, it is generally true that before anytemporary ailment can be called a “disease,” it must be such as to Indicate a vice in theconstitution, or

A statement in a pleading or indictment which expresses or charges a thing alternatively, with the conjunction “or;” for instance, an averment that defendant “murdered or caused to be murdered,” etc., would

In old English law. An injury by union or comparison with someperson or thing of inferior rank or excellence.Marriage without disparagement was marriage to one of suitable rank and character.2 Bl. Comm.

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