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DISPOSITIVE FACTS

Such as produce or bring about the origination, transfer, orextinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comesinto existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or

DISPOSSESS PROCEEDINGS

Summary process by a landlord to oust the tenant andregain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of theconditions of the lease. Of local origin and colloquial use

DISPOSSESSION

Ouster; a wrong that carries with it the amotion of possession. Anact whereby the wrong-doer gets the actual occupation of the land or hereditament. Itincludes abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, deforcement. 3 Bl.

DISPROVE

To refute; to prove to be false or erroneous; not necessarily by meredenial, but by affirmative evidence to the contrary. Irsch v. Irsch, 12 N. Y. Civ. Proc. R. 182.

DISPUTATIO FORI

In the civil law. Discussion or argument before a court Mackeld. Rom. Law,

DISPUTE

A conflict or controversy; a conflict of claims or rights; an assertion of aright, claim, or demand on one side, met by contrary claims or allegations on the other.Slaven v. Wheeler, 58

MATTER IN DISPUTE

The subject of litigation ; the matter for which a suit is brought and upon which issue isjoined, and in relation to which jurors are called and witnesses examined. Lee v.Watson, 1

DISQUALIFY

To divest or deprive of qualifications; to incapacitate; to render ineligibleor unfit; as, in speaking of the “disqualification” of a judge by reason of hisinterest in the case, of a juror by

DISRATE

In maritime law. To deprive a seaman or petty officer of his “rating” or rank; to reduce to a lower rate or rank.

DISSASINA

In old Scotch law. Disseisin ; dispossession. Skene.

DISSECTION

The anatomical examination of a dead body by cutting into pieces orexscinding one or more parts or organs. Wehle v. Accident Ass’n. 11 Misc. Rep. 36, 31N. Y. Supp. 865; Sudduth v.

DISSEISEE

One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands; one who is disseised.

DISSEISIN

Dispossession; a deprivation of possession; a privation of seisin; ausurpation of the right of seisin and possession, and an exercise of such powers andprivileges of ownership as to keep out or displace

DISSEISITRIX

A female disseisor; a disseisoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 12,

DISSEISOR

One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully

DISSENSUS

Lat In the civil law. The mutual agreement of the parties to a simplecontract obligation that it shall be dissolved or annulled; technically, an undoing of theconsensus which created the obligation. Mackeld.

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