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

Not married; not subject to the disabilities of a coverture. It applies equally to a maid and a widow.

In a general sense, the ascertainment of that which was previously unknown; the disclosure or coming to light of what was previously hidden; the acquisition of notice or knowledge of given acts

To destroy or impair the credibility of a person ; to impeach ; to lessenthe degree of credit to be accorded to a witness or document, as by impugning the veracityof the

A difference between two things which ought to be identical, asbetween one writing and another; a variance, (

A liberty or privilege allowed to a judge, within the confines of right and justice, but independent of narrow and unbending rules of positive law, to decide and act in accordance with