DISPOSING CAPACITY OR MIND
These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for “sound mind,” and “testamentary capacity,” (q. v.)
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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.
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
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.
To dispossess; to deprive.
One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands; one who is disseised.
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
A female disseisor; a disseisoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 12,
One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully