The want of legal ability or capacity to exercise legal rights, eitherspecial or ordinary, or to do certain acts with proper legal effect or to enjoy certainprivileges or powers of free action.

In its ordinary sense, to disable is to cause a disability, (q. v.). In the old language of pleading, to disable is to take advantage of one’s own or another’s disability. Thus,

These are acts of parliament, restraining and regulating theexercise of a right or the power of alienation; the terra is specially applied to 1 Eliz. c.19, and similar acts restraining the power

To deny a thing.

To repudiate; to revoke a consent once given ; to recall an affirmance.To refuse one’s subsequent sanction to a former act; to disclaim the intention of beingbound by an antecedeut transaction.

The repudiation of a former transaction. The refusal by one whohas the right to refuse, (as in the case of a voidable contract,) to abide by his formeracts, or accept the legal

To restore to their former condition lands which have been turnedinto forests. To remove from the operation of the forest laws. 2 Bl. Comm. 416.

Difference of opinion or want of uniformity or concurrence ofviews; as, a disagreement among the members of a jury, among the judges of a court,or between arbitrators. Darnell v. Lyon, S5 Tex.

To disable a person.

In ecclesiastical law. This is where the appropriation of abenefice is severed, either by the patron presenting a clerk or by the corporation whichhas the appropriation being dissolved. 1 Bl. Comm. 385.

To repudiate the unauthorized acts of an agent; to deny the authority bywhich he assumed to act.

In England, to deprive a barrister permanently of the privileges of hisposition; it is analogous to striking an attorney off the rolls. In America, the word describesthe act of a court in

In old English law. A conversion of wood grounds into arable or pasture; an assarting. Cowell. See ASSART.

Money expended by an executor, guardian, trustee, etc., for thebenefit of the estate in his hands, or in connection with its administration.The term is also used under the codes of civil procedure,

In old English law. To discharge, to unload; as a vessel. Carcareet disearcare; to charge and discharge; to load and unload. Cowell.

In old European law. To discharge or unload, as a wagon. Spelman.

In Roman law. The argument of a cause by the counsel on both sides. Calvin.

The opposite of charge; hence to release ; liberate; annul; unburden; disincumber.In the law of contracts. To cancel or unloose the obligation of a contract; to makean agreement or contract null and

The repudiation or renunciation of a right or claim vested in a personor which he had formerly alleged to be his. The refusal, waiver, or denial of an estate orright offered to

In Scotch law. Disavowal of tenure; denial that one holds lands of another. Bell.