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

That abuse of government where the sovereign power is not divided, hutunited in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title. It is not,properly, a form of government.

To act as a despot. Webster.

L. Fr. Unreasonable. Britt. C. 121.

In French law. When a person is declared bankrupt, he isImmediately deprived of the enjoyment and administration of all his property; this deprivation,which extends to all his rights, is called “dessaisissement.” Arg.

The purpose to which It Is intended an article or a fund shall beapplied. A testator gives a destination to a legacy when he prescribes the specific use to which it shall

A “destitute person” is one who has no money or other property availablefor Ills maintenance or support. Nor- ridgewock v. Solon, 49 Me. 385; Woods v.Perkins, 43 La. Ann. 347, 9 South.

As used in policies of Insurance, leases, and in maritime law, this term Isoften applied to an act which renders the subject useless for its intended purpose,though it does not literally demolish

A term used in old English law, generally in connection with waste,and having, according to some, the same meaning. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 385; 3 Bl.Comm. 223. Britton, however, makes a distinction

To weary a person with continual barkings, and then to bite; spoken of dogs. Leg Alured. 26, cited in Cunningham’s Diet

Disuse; cessation or discontinuance of use. Applied to obsolete statutes. James v. Comm., 12 Serg. & It. (Pa.) 227.

To seize or take into custody another’s goods or person.

The act (or the juridical fact) of withholding from a person lawfully entitled the possession of land or goods; or the restraint of a man’s personal liberty against his will.The wrongful keeping