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  • DISAFFIRMANCE
    The repudiation of a former transaction. The refusal by one who has the right to refuse, (as in the case of a voidable contract,) to abide by his former acts, or accept the legal consequences of the same. It may either be "express" (in words) or "implied" from acts expressing More...
  • DISAFFOREST
    To restore to their former condition lands which have been turned into forests. To remove from the operation of the forest laws. 2 BL Comm. 416.
  • DISAGREEMENT
    Difference of opinion or want of uniformity or concurrence of views; as, a disagreement among the members of a jury, among the judges of a court, or between arbitrators. Darnell v. Lyon, 85 Tex. 466, 22 S. W. 364; Insurance Co. v. poying, 55 N. J. Law, 569, 27 Atl. More...
  • DISALT
    To disable a person.
  • DISAPPROPRIATION
    In ecclesiastical law. This is where the appropriation of a benefice is severed, either by the patron presenting a clerk or by the corporation which has the appropriation being dissolved. 1 Bl. Comm. 385.
  • DISAVOW
    To repudiate the unauthorized acts of an agent; to deny the authority by which he assumed to act.
  • DISBAR
    In England, to deprive a bar-ilster permanently of the privileges, of his position; it is analogous to striking an attorney off the rolls. In America, the word describes the act of a court in withdrawing from an attorney the right to practise at its bar.
  • DISBOCATIO
    In old English law. A conversion of wood grounds into arable or pasture; an assarting. Cowell. See ASSABT.
  • DISBURSEMENTS
    Money expended by an executor, guardian, trustee, etc., for the benefit of the estate in his hands, or in connection with its administration. The term is also used under the codes of civil procedure, to designate the expenditures necessarily made by a party in the progress of an action, aside More...
  • DISCARCARE
    In old English law. To discharge, to unload; as a vessel. Carcare et discarcare; to charge and discharge; to load and unload. Cowell.
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