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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.
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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.
To deprive commonable lands of their commonable quality, by inclosing and appropriating or improving them.
In practice. Thetermination of an action, in consequence of the plaintiff’s omitting to continue the processor proceedings by proper entries on the record. 3 Bl. Comm. 296; 1 Tidd, Pr. 678;2 Arch.
The termination or suspension of an estate- tail, in consequence of the act of the tenant in tail, in conveying a larger estate in the land than he was by law entitled
Occasional; intermittent ; characterized by separate repeated acts; as, discontinuous easements and servitudes. See EASEMENT.
L. Fr. Improper; unfit Kelham
In a general sense, an allowance or deduction made from a gross sumon any account whatever. In a more limited and technical sense, the taking of Interestinadvance.By the language of the commercial
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