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  • DESPERATE
    Hopeless; worthless. This term is used in Inventories and schedules of assets, particularly by executors, etc., to describe debts or claims which are considered impossible or hopeless of collection. See Schultz v. Pulver, 11 Wend. (N. Y.) 365. -Desperate debt. A hopeless debt; an Irrecoverable obligation.
  • DESPITE
    Contempt. Despitz, contempts. Kelham.
  • DESPITUS
    Contempt See DESPITE. A contemptible person. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 5.
  • DESPOJAR
    A possessory action of the Mexican law. It is brought to recover possession of Immovable property, of which one has been despoiled (despojado) by another.
  • DESPOIL
    This word involves, in its signification, violence or clandestine means by which one is deprived of that which he " possesses. Its Spanish equivalent despojar, is a term used in Mexican law. Sunol v. Hepburn, 1 Cal. 268.
  • DESPONSATION
    The act of betrothing persons to each other.
  • DESPOSORIO
    In Spanish law. Espousals ; mutual promises of future marriage. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 6, c. 1, f 1.
  • DESPOT
    This word, in its original and most simple acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch ; hut taken in bad part as it Is usually ' employed, it signifies a tyrant In some states, despot is the title given to the sovereign, as king is given More...
  • DESRENABLE
    L. Fr. Unreasonable Brftt c. 121.
  • DESSAISISSEMENT
    In French law. When a person Is declared bankrupt he is immediately deprived of the enjoyment and administration of all his property; this deprivation, which extends to all his rights, is called "dessaisissement." Arg. Fr. Merc Law, 55a
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