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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A presumption of law, which may be rebutted or disproved. See PRESUMPTIONS.

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

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

To justify; to clear one’s self of a fault; to traverse an indictment; to disprove. Enc. Lond.

In old Scotch law. Disseisin ; dispossession. Skene.

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.