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DISPERSONARE
To scandalize or disparage. Blount

To scandalize or disparage. Blount Less...
DISPLACE
This term, as used In shipping articles, means "disrate," and does not import authority of the master to discharge a second mate, notwithstanding a usage in the whaling trade never to disrate an officer to a seaman. Potter v. Smith, 103 Mass. 68.

This term, as used In shipping articles, means "disrate," and does not import authority of the master to discharge a second mate, notwithstanding a usage in the whaling trade never to disrate an officer to a seaman. Potter v. Smith, 103 Mass. 68. Less...
DISPONE
In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to the conveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, however clear may be the meaning of the narty. Paters. Comp.

In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to the conveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, however clear may be the meaning of the narty. Paters. Comp. Less...
DISPONO
Lat. To dispose of, grant or convey. Disponet, he grants or alienates. Jus disponcndi, the right of disposition, i. e., of transferring the title to property.

Lat. To dispose of, grant or convey. Disponet, he grants or alienates. Jus disponcndi, the right of disposition, i. e., of transferring the title to property. Less...
DISPOSE
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. W. 509; Love v. Pamplin (C. C.) 21 Fed. 760; U. S. v. Hacker (D. C.) More...

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. W. 509; Love v. Pamplin (C. C.) 21 Fed. 760; U. S. v. Hacker (D. C.) 73 Fed. 294; Bens v. Fabian, 54 N. J. Eq. 615, 35 Atl. 760; EI-ston v. Schilling, 42 N. Y. 79; Beard v. Knox, 5 Cal. 256, 63 Am. Dec. 125. Less...
DISPOSABLE PORTION
That portion of a man's property which he is free to dispose of by will to beneficiaries other than his wife and children. By the ancient common law, this amounted to one-third of his estate if he was survived by both wife and children. 2 Bl. Comm. 492; Hopkins v. More...

That portion of a man's property which he is free to dispose of by will to beneficiaries other than his wife and children. By the ancient common law, this amounted to one-third of his estate if he was survived by both wife and children. 2 Bl. Comm. 492; Hopkins v. Wright, 17 Tex. 36. In the civU law (by the Lex Falcidia) it amounted to three-fourths. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ?| 706, 771. Less...
DISPOSING CAPACITY OR MIND
These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for "sound mind," and 'otestamentary capacity," (q. v.)

These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for "sound mind," and 'otestamentary capacity," (q. v.) Less...
DISPOSITION
In Scotch law. A deed of alienation by which a right to property is conveyed. Bell.

In Scotch law. A deed of alienation by which a right to property is conveyed. Bell. Less...
DISPOSITIVE FACTS
Such as produce or bring about the origination, transfer, or extinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comes into existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or translative, those through which it passes from one person to another.

Such as produce or bring about the origination, transfer, or extinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comes into existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or translative, those through which it passes from one person to another. Less...
DISPOSSESS PROCEEDINGS
Summary process by a landlord to oust the tenant and regain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of the conditions of the lease. Of local origin and colloquial use in New York.

Summary process by a landlord to oust the tenant and regain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of the conditions of the lease. Of local origin and colloquial use in New York. Less...

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