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  • DISPARAGARE
    In old English law. To bring together those that are unequal, (dlspares conferre;) to connect in an indecorous and unworthy manner; to connect in marriage those that are unequal in blood and parentage.
  • DISPARAGATIO
    In old English law. Disparagement. Hwredes maritentur absque disparagatione, heirs shall be married without disparagement. Magna Charta, (9 Hen. III.) c. 6.
  • DISPARAGATION
    L. Fr. Disparagement; the matching an heir, etc., in marriage, under his or her degree or condition, or against the rules of decency. Kelham.
  • DISPARAGE
    To connect unequally; to "match unsuitably."
  • DISPARAGEMENT
    In old English law. An injury by union or comparison with some person or thing of inferior rank or excellence. Marriage without disparagement was marriage to one of suitable rank and character. 2 Bl. Comm. 70; Co. Litt 826. Shutt v. Carloss, 36 N. C. 232.
  • DISPARAGIUM
    In old Scotch law. Inequality in blood, honor, dignity, or otherwise. Skene de Verb. Sign. Disparata non debent jnngi. Things unlike ought not to be joined. Jenk. Cent 24, marg.
  • DISPARK
    To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert it into ordinary ground.
  • DISPATCH , OR DESPATCH.
    A message, letter, or order sent with speed on affairs of state; a telegraphic message. In maritime law. Diligence, due activity, or proper speed in the discharge of a cargo; the opposite of delay. Terjesen v. Carter, 9 Daly (N. Y.) 193; Moody v. Laths (D. C.) 2 Fed. 607; More...
  • DISPAUPER
    When a person, by reason of his poverty, is admitted to sue in forma pauperis, and afterwards, before the suit be ended, acquires any lands, or personal estate, or is guilty of anything whereby he is liable to have this privilege taken from him, then he loses the right to More...
  • DISPENSATION
    An exemption from some laws; a permission to do something forbidden; an allowance to omit something commanded; the canonistic name for a license. Wharton; Baldwin v. Taylor, 166 Pa. 507, SI Atl. 250; Viele Insurance Co., 26 Iowa, 56, 06 Am. Dec. 83. A relaxation of law for the benefit More...
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