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The testimony of a witness taken upon interrogatories, not in open court, but in pursuance of a commission to take testimony issued by a court, or under a general law on the

Coming from another; taken from something preceding ; secondary;that which has not its origin in itself, but owes its existence to something foregoing.

A description or descriptive expression by which a person or thing is denoted in a will without using the name.

To act as a despot. Webster.

Lat. In the civil law. A summoning made, or notice given, in the presence of witnesses, (denuntiatio facta cum testatione.) Dig. 50, 16, 40.

To deprive; to take away; to withdraw. Usually spoken of an authority,power, property, or title; as the estate is devested.Devest is opposite to invest. As to invest signifies to deliver the possession

In maritime law. The contract which takes place between the ownerof a ship, the captain, and the mariners, who agree that the voyage shall be for thebenefit of all. The term is

See DYING WITHOUT ISSUE.

In the civil and old English law. A lawful or law day; a term day; a day of appearance.

Digests. One of the titles of the Pandects of Justinian. Inst, proem,

In the civil law. Diminution; a taking away; loss or deprivation.Diminutio capitis, loss of status or condition. See CAPITIS DIMINUTIO.

A person subject to dipsomania. One who has an irresistible desire for alcoholic liquors. See INSANITT.

To repudiate; to revoke a consent once given ; to recall an affirmance.To refuse one’s subsequent sanction to a former act; to disclaim the intention of beingbound by an antecedeut transaction.

To deprive commonable lands of their commonable quality, by inclosing and appropriating or improving them.

The act of disfranchising. The act of depriving a member of acorporation of his right as such, by expulsion. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 102. Richards v.Clarksburg, 30 W. Va. 401, 4 S.

To send away; to discharge; to cause to be removed. To dismiss an actionor suit is to send it out of court without any further consideration or hearing. Bos- ley v.Bruner, 24

A message, letter, or order sent with speed on affairs ofstate; a telegraphic message.In maritime law. Diligence, due activity, or proper speed In the discharge of a cargo;the opposite of delay. Terjesen

A conflict or controversy; a conflict of claims or rights; an assertion of aright, claim, or demand on one side, met by contrary claims or allegations on the other.Slaven v. Wheeler, 58

Protestant seceders from the established church of England. They areof many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents, Methodists, and Baptists; but, as to church government, the Baptists are Independents.

One that has no bounds with regard to its quantity, and may he repeatedfrom time to time, until the stubbornness of the party is conquered. Such aredistresses for fealty or suit of