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  • DIVERS
    Various, several, sundry; a collective term grouping a number of unspecified persons,. objects, or acts. Com. v. Butts, 124 Mass. 452 ; State v. Hodgson, 66 Vt 134, 28 Atl. 1089; Munro v. Alalre, 2 Calnes (N. Y.) 326.
  • DIVERSION
    A turning aside or altering the natural course of a thing. The term Is chiefly applied to the unauthorized changing the course of a water-course to the prejudice of a lower proprietor. Merritt v. Parker, 1 N. J. Law, 460; Parker v. Griswold, 17 COnn. 299, 42 Am. Dec. 739.
  • DIVERSITE DES COURTS
    A treatise on courts and their jurisdiction, written in French in the reign of Edward III. as is supposed, and by some attributed to Fitzher-bert It was first printed in 1525, and again in 1534. Crabb, Eng. Law, 330, 483.
  • DIVERSITY
    In criminal pleading. A plea by the prisoner In bar of execution, alleging that he is not tbe same who was attainted, upon which a jury is Immediately impaneled to try the collateral issue thus raised, viz., the identity of the person, and not whether he is guilty or Innocent More...
  • DIVERSO INTUITU
    Lat. With a different view, purpose, or design; in a different view or point of view; by a different course or process. 1 W. BL 89; 4 Kent Comm. 211, note.
  • DIVERSORIUM
    In old English law. A lodging or inn. Townsh. Pi. 38.
  • DIVERT
    To turn aside; to turn out of the way; to alter the course of things. Usually applied to water-courses. Ang. Water-Courses, f 97 et seq. Sometimes to roads. 8 East 394.
  • DIVES
    In tbe practice of the English chancery division, "dives costs" are costs on the ordinary scale, as opposed to the costs formerly allowed to a successful pauper suing or defending in formd pauperis, and which consisted only of his costs out of pocket Daniell, Ch. Pr. 43.
  • DIVEST
    Equivalent to devest, (q. v.)
  • DIVESTITIVE FACT
    A fact by means of which a right is divested, terminated, or extinguished; as the right of a tenant terminates with the expiration of his lease, and the right of a creditor is at an end when his debt has been paid. Holl. Jur. 132. Divide et impera, earn radix More...
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