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

This term Is used In policies of marine insurance, in the clauserelating to “arrests, restraints, and detainments.” The last two words are construed asequivalents, each meaning the effect of superior force operating

In the civil law. That con dition of fact under which one can exercise hispower over a corporeal thing at his pleasure, to the exclusion of all others. It forms thesubstance of

The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. See DETAINER.

is where a juvenile offender is sentenced to be sent to a reformatory school, to be there detained fora certain period of time. 1 Russ. Crimes, 82.

The decision of a court of justice. Shirley v. Birch, 16 Or. 1, 18Pac. 344; Henavie v. Railroad Co., 154 N. Y. 278, 48 N. E. 525. The ending or expirationof an

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

Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. 1 Reeves, Eng. Law, 159.In

In practice. A form of action which lies for the recovery, in specie, ofpersonal chattels from one who acquired possession of them lawfully, but retains itwithout right, together with damages for the