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  • DISINHERITANCE
    The act by which the owner of an estate deprives a person of the right to inherit the same, who would otherwise be his heir.
  • DISINTER
    To exhume, unbary, take out of the grave. People v. Baumgartner, 135 Cal. 72, 66 Pac. 974.
  • DISINTERESTED
    Not concerned, m respect to. possible gain or loss, in the result of the pending proceedings; impartial, not biased or prejudiced. Chase v. Rutland, 47 Vt 393; In re Big Run, 137 Pa. 590, 20 Atl. 711; McCilvery v. Staples, 81 Me. 101, -id Ati. 404; Wolcott v. Ely, 2 More...
  • DISJUNCTIM
    Lat. In the civil law. Separately; severally. Tbe opposite of conjunctim. {q. v.) Inst 2, 20, 8.
  • DISJUNCTIVE ALLEGATION
    A statement in a pleading or indictment which expresses or charges a thing alternatively, with the conjunction "or;" for instance, an averment that defendant "murdered or caused to be murdered," etc., would be of this character.
  • DISJUNCTIVE TERM
    One which is placed between two contraries, by the affirming of one of which the other is taken away; it is usually expressed by the word "or."
  • DISMES
    Tenths; tithes, (q. v.) The original form of "dime," the name of the American coin.
  • DISMISS
    To send away; to discharge; to cause to be removed. To dismiss an action or suit is to send it out of court without any further consideration or hearing. Bosley v. Bruner, 24 Miss. 462; Taft f. Northern Transp. Co., 56 N. H. 417; Goldsmith v. Smith (C. C.) 21 More...
  • DISMISSAL
    The dismissal of an action, suit, motion, etc., is an order or judgment finally disposing of it by sending it out of court, though without a trial of the issues involved. Frederick y. Bank, 106 HI. 149; Dowllngv. Polack, 18 Cal. 627; Brackenridge v. State 27 Tex. App. 513, 11 More...
  • DISMORTGAGE
    To redeem from mortgage.
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