In French law. Pillage, waste, or spoliation of goods, particularly ofthe estate of a decedent

In English ecclesiastical law. The taking away from a clergyman hisbenefice or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either by sentence declaratory in theproper court for fit and sufficient causes or in pursuance

To appoint a deputy; to appoint or commission one to act as deputy toan officer. In a general sense, the term is descriptive of empowering one person to actfor another in any

A substitute; a person duly authorized by an officer to exercise some or allof the functions pertaining to the office, in tlie place and stead of the latter. Carter v.Horiiback, 139 Mo.

A steward of a manor may depute or authorize another to hold a court; aud tlie actsdone in a court so holden will be as legal as if the court had been

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,

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,

Forsaken ; abandoned; deserted ; cast away.Personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner in such manner as to indicatethat he intends to make no further claim thereto. 2 Bl. Comm.

The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the seashrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of alluvion, (q. v.) Dyer, 3206;2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm.

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

Conveyances which presuppose some other conveyanceprecedent, and only serve to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore, or transfer theinterest granted by such original conveyance. They are releases, confirmations,surrenders, assignments, and defeasances. 2 Bl.

The partial repeal or abolishing of a law, as by a subsequent actwhich limits its scope or impairs its utility and force. Distinguished from abrogation,which means the entire repeal and annulment of

In a will, this is a sentence or secret character inserted bythe testator, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that nowill he may make thereafter should be

In Mexican law. The dcsamortizacion of property is to take itout of mortmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unloose It from the grasp, as it were, ofecclesiastical or civil corporations. The term

One who Is descended from another; a person who proceeds from the body of another, such as a child, grandchild, etc., to the remotest degree. The terms the opposite of “ascendant,” (?.

Descent; in the descent See FOBMEDON.

Capable of passing by descent, or of being inherited or transmittedby devise, (spoken of estates, titles, offices, and other property.) Collins r. Smith, 105Ga. 525, 31 S. E. 449.

Hereditary succession. Succession to the ownership of an estate by inheritance,or by any act of law, as distinguished from “purchase.” Title by descent is thetitle by which one person, upon the death

The devolving of realty upon the heir on the death of his ancestor intestate.

Description of the person. By this is meant a word orphrase used merely for the purpose of identifying or pointing out the person intended,and not as an intimation that the language in