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  • DISFRANCHISE
    To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, etc Webster.
  • DISFRANCHISEMENT
    The act of disfranchising. The act of depriving a member of a corporation of his right as such, by expulsion. 1 Bouv. Inst no. 192. Richards v. Clarksburg, 30 W. Va. 491, 4 S. E. 774; White v. Brownell, 4 Abb. Prac. (N; S.) (N. Y.) 192. It differs from More...
  • DISGAVEL
    In English law. To deprive lands of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which they descend equally among all the sons of the tenant 2 Wood. Lect 70; 2 Bl. Comm. 85.
  • DISGRACE
    Ignominy; shame; dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. 13 How. State Tr. 17, 334.
  • DISGRADING
    In old English law. The depriving of an order or dignity.
  • DISGUISE
    A counterfeit habit; a dress intended to conceal the person who wears it. Webster. Anything worn upon the person with the intention of so altering the wearer's appearance that he shall not be recognized by those familiar with him, or that he shall be taken for another person. A person More...
  • DISHERISON
    Disinheritance; depriving one of an inheritance. Obsolete. See Abernethy v. Orton, 42 Or. 437, 71 Pac. 327, 95 Am. St Rep. 774.
  • DISHONOR
    In mercantile law and usage. To refuse or decline to accept a bill of exchange, or to refuse or neglect to pay a bill or note at maturity. Shelton v. Braith-waite, 7 Mees. A W. 436; Brewster v. Arnold, 1 Wis. 276. A negotiable instrument is dishonored when it is More...
  • DISINCARCERATE
    To set at liberty, to free from prison.
  • DISINHERISON
    In the civil law. The act of depriving a forced heir of the inheritance which the law gives him.
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