In old English law . An injury by union or comparison with someperson or thing of inferior rank or excellence.Marriage without disparagement was marriage to one of suitable rank and […]

In old Scotch law . Inequality in blood, honor, dignity, or otherwise. Skene de Verb. Sign.Disparata non debcnt jungi. Things unlike ought not to be joined. Jeuk. Cent 24, marg.

To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert it into ordinary ground.

A message, letter, or order sent with speed on affairs ofstate; a telegraphic message. In maritime law . Diligence, due activity, or proper speed In the discharge of a cargo;the […]

When a person, by reason of his ]>overty, is admitted to sue in formalpauperis, and afterwards, before the suit be ended, acquires any lands, or personalestate, or is guilty of […]

An exemption from some laws; a permission to do somethingforbidden; an allowance to omit something commanded; the canonistic name for alicense. Wharton; Baldwin r. Taylor, 160 Pa. 507, 31 Atl. […]

an agency’s authority that excuses a person from doing a duty and asks them to refrain from an act or from certain conduct.

To scandalize or disparage. Blount

This term, as used in shipping articles, means “disrate,” and does notimport authority of the master to discharge a second mate, notwithstanding a usage inthe whaling trade never to disrate […]

In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to theconveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, howeverclear may be the meaning of the […]

Lat To dispose of, grant or convey. Disponet, he grants or alienates. Jusdisponendi, the right of disposition , i. e., of transferring the title to property.

That portion of a man’s property which he is free to disposeof by will to beneficiaries other than his wife and children. By the ancient common law,this amounted to one-third […]

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, […]

These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for “sound mind,” and ” testamentary capacity ,” (q. v.)

In Scotch law . A deed of alienation by which a right to property Is conveyed. Bell.

Such as produce or bring about the origination , transfer, orextinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comesinto existence, divestitive, those through which […]

Summary process by a landlord to oust the tenant andregain possession of the premises for non-payment of rent or other breach of theconditions of the lease. Of local origin and […]

Ouster; a wrong that carries with it the amotion of possession. Anact whereby the wrong-doer gets the actual occupation of the land or hereditament. Itincludes abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance , […]

See eviction.

To refute; to prove to be false or erroneous; not necessarily by meredenial, but by affirmative evidence to the contrary. Irsch v. Irsch, 12 N. Y. Civ. Proc. R. 182.

In old English ‘aw. Not answerable. Co. Litt. 276, 53. 1 Steph. Comm. 245. Not punishable. “This murder is dispunishable .” 1 Leon. 270.

A presumption of law , which may be rebutted or disproved. See PRESUMPTIONS.

In the civil law . Discussion or argument before a court Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A conflict or controversy ; a conflict of claims or rights; an assertion of aright, claim, or demand on one side, met by contrary claims or allegations on the other.Slaven […]

To divest or deprive of qualifications ; to incapacitate; to render ineligibleor unfit; as, in speaking of the “disqualification” of a judge by reason of hisinterest in the case, of […]