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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • DISPOSSESSION
    Ouster; a wrong that carries with it the amotion of possession. An act whereby the wrong-doer gets the actual occupation of the land or hereditament. It includes abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, deforcement 8 Bl. Comm. 167.
  • DISPROVE
    To refute; to prove to be false or erroneous; not necessarily by mere denial, but by affirmative evidence to the contrary. Irsch v. Irsch, 12 N. Y. Civ. Proc R. 182.
  • DISPUNISHABLE
    In old English law. Not answerable. Co. Litt 27b, 53. 1 Steph. Comm. 245. Not punishable. "This murder is dispunishable." 1 Leon. 270.
  • DISPUTATIO FORI
    In the civil law. Discussion or argument before a court Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 38; Dig. 1, 2, 2, 5.
  • DISPUTE
    A conflict or controversy; a conflict of claims or rights; an assertion of a right, claim, or demand on one side, met by contrary claims or allegations on the other. Slaven v. Wheeler, 58 Tex. 25; Keith v. Levi (C. C.) 2 Fed. 745; Ft. Pitt Gas Co. v. Borough More...
  • DISQUALIFY
    To divest or deprive of qualifications; to incapacitate; to render ineligible or unfit; as, in speaking of the "disqualification" of a judge by reason of his interest in the case, of a juror by reason of his holding a fixed preconceived opinion, or of a candidate for public office by More...
  • DISRATE
    In maritime law. To deprive a seaman or petty officer of his "rating" or rank; to reduce to a lower rate or rank.
  • DISRATIONARE, OR DIRATIONARE
    To justify; to clear one's self of a fault; to traverse an indictment; to disprove. Enc. Lond.
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