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  • 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...
  • DISPERSONARE
    To scandalize or disparage. Blount
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • DISPOSING CAPACITY OR MIND
    These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for "sound mind," and 'otestamentary capacity," (q. v.)
  • DISPOSITION
    In Scotch law. A deed of alienation by which a right to property is conveyed. Bell.
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