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

A hopeless debt; an irrecoverable obligation.

Contempt. Despitz, contempts. Kelham.

Contempt. See DESPITE. A contemptible person. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 5.

A possessory action of the Mexican law. It is brought to recover possessionof Immovable property, of which one bas been despoiled (despojado) byanother.

This word involves, in its signification, violence or clandestine means bywhich one is deprived of that which he possesses. Its Spanish equivalent, dcspojar, is aterm used In Mexican law. Sunol v. Hepburn,

The act of betrothing persons to each other.

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

This word, in its original and most simple acceptation, signifies master andsupreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch ; but taken in bad part, as it is usuallyemployed, it signifies a tyrant