Such as are not marked out on fixed lines, but allow acertain amount of discretion in their exercise. Those which cannot be duly administeredwithout the application of a certain degree of prudence

In the civil law. A proceeding, at the instance of a surety, by which the creditor is obliged to exhaust theproperty of the principal debtor, towards the satisfaction of the debt before

In construing a policy of life insurance, it is generally true that before anytemporary ailment can be called a “disease,” it must be such as to Indicate a vice in theconstitution, or

In English law. An enrolled assurance barring an entail,pursuant to 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74.

To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, etc.

The act of disfranchising. The act of depriving a member of acorporation of his right as such, by expulsion. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 102. Richards v.Clarksburg, 30 W. Va. 401, 4 S.

In English law. To deprive lands of that principal quality of gavelkindtenure by which they descend equally among all the sons of the tenant. 2 Wood. Lect70; 2 Bl. Comm. 85.

Ignominy; shame; dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. 13 How. State Tr. 17, 334.

A counterfeit habit; a dress intended to conceal the person who wears it. Webster.Anything worn upon the person with the intention of so altering the wearer’sappearance that he shall not be recognized

Disinheritance; depriving one of an inheritance. Obsolete. See Abernetliy v. Orton, 42 Or. 437, 71 Pac. 327, 95 Am. St. Rep. 774.

In mercantile law and usage. To refuse or decline to accept a bill ofexchange, or to refuse or neglect to pay a bill or note at maturity. Shelton v. Braithwaite,7 Mees. &

To set at liberty, to free from prison.

In the civil law. The act of depriving a forced heir of the inheritancewhich the law gives him.

The act by which the owner of an estate deprives a person of theright to inherit the same, who would otherwise be his heir.

To exhume, unbury, take out of the grave. People v. Baumgartner, 135 Cal. 72, 00 1’ac. 974.

Not concerned, in respect to possible gaiu or loss, in the result ofthe pending proceedings; impartial, not biased or prejudiced. Chase v. Rutland, 47 Vt.393; In re Big Run, 137 Pa. 500,

One who has no interest in the cause or matter in issue, and who is lawfully competent to testify. Jonesv. Larrabee, 47 Me. 474 ; Warren v. Baxter. 48 Me. 195; Appeal

Lat. In the civil law. Separately; severally. The opposite of conjunct im, (q. v.) Inst. 2, 20, 8.

A statement in a pleading or indictment which expresses or charges a thing alternatively, with the conjunction “or;” for instance, an averment that defendant “murdered or caused to be murdered,” etc., would

One which is placed between two contraries, by the affirmingof one of which the other is taken away; it is usually expressed by the word “or.”