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

1. A delineation or account of a particular subject by the recital of itscharacteristic accidents and qualities.2. A written enumeration of items composing an estate, or of its condition, or oftitles or

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

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. Dishonor; injury; slander. Las Partidas, pt. 7, tit. 9, I. 1, 6.

In the law of evidence. Purpose or intention, combined with plan, or implyinga plan in the mind. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 331; State v. Grant, 80 Iowa, 210, 53 N. W.120; Ernest v.

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

This term, used in a will in relation to the management and distribution ofproperty, has been interpreted by the courts with different shades of meaning, varyingfrom the mere expression of a preference

A term used in the Spanish law, denoting the act by which the boundaries of an estate or portion of a country are determined.

In Spanish law. Persons deprived of memory. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 2, c. 1,

In maritime law. Persons appointed to settle cases of average.

Official communications of official persons on the affairs of government.

Hopeless; worthless. This term is used In Inventories and schedules ofassets, particularly by executors, etc., to describe debts or claims which are consideredimpossible or hopeless of collection. See Schultz v. Pulver, 11