DISORDERLY PERSONS
Such as are dangerous or hurtful to the public peace and welfare by reason of their misconduct orvicious habits, and are therefore amendable to police regulation. The phrase is chietlyused in statutes,
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Such as are dangerous or hurtful to the public peace and welfare by reason of their misconduct orvicious habits, and are therefore amendable to police regulation. The phrase is chietlyused in statutes,
In old English law. To bring together those that are unequal,(dispares confcrre;) to connect in an indecorous and unworthy manner; to connect inmarriage those that are unequal in blood and parentage.
In old English law. Disparagement. Hwredes maritentur absquedisparayatione, heirs shall be married without disparagement. Magna Chart a, (9 Hen.III.) c. 6.
L. Fr. Disparagement ; the matching an heir, etc., in marriage,under his or her degree or condition, or against the rules of decency. Kelham.
To connect unequally; to match unsuitably
In old English law. An injury by union or comparison with someperson or thing of inferior rank or excellence.Marriage without disparagement was marriage to one of suitable rank and character.2 Bl. Comm.
In old Scotch law. Inequality in blood, honor, dignity, or otherwise. Skene de Verb. Sign.Disparata non debcnt jungi. Things unlike ought not to be joined. Jeuk. Cent 24, marg.
To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert it into ordinary ground.
A message, letter, or order sent with speed on affairs ofstate; a telegraphic message.In maritime law. Diligence, due activity, or proper speed In the discharge of a cargo;the opposite of delay. Terjesen
Speedy discharge of cargo without allowance for the customs or rules of the port or for delay from the crowded state ofthe harbor or wharf. Mott v. Frost (D. C.) 47 Fed.
When a person, by reason of his ]>overty, is admitted to sue in formalpauperis, and afterwards, before the suit be ended, acquires any lands, or personalestate, or is guilty of anything whereby
An exemption from some laws; a permission to do somethingforbidden; an allowance to omit something commanded; the canonistic name for alicense. Wharton; Baldwin r. Taylor, 160 Pa. 507, 31 Atl. 250; Viele
To scandalize or disparage. Blount
This term, as used in shipping articles, means “disrate,” and does notimport authority of the master to discharge a second mate, notwithstanding a usage inthe whaling trade never to disrate an officer
In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to theconveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, howeverclear may be the meaning of the party. Paters.
Lat To dispose of, grant or convey. Disponet, he grants or alienates. Jusdisponendi, the right of disposition, i. e., of transferring the title to property.
To alienate or direct the ownership of property, as disposition by will.Used also of the determination of suits. Called a word of large extent. Koerner v.Wilkinson, 96 Mo. App. 510, 70 S.
That portion of a man’s property which he is free to disposeof by will to beneficiaries other than his wife and children. By the ancient common law,this amounted to one-third of his
These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for “sound mind,” and “testamentary capacity,” (q. v.)
In Scotch law. A deed of alienation by which a right to property Is conveyed. Bell.