In maritime law . To deprive a seaman or petty officer of his “rating” or rank; to reduce to a lower rate or rank.

To justify; to clear one’s self of a fault; to traverse an indictment ; to disprove. Enc. Lond.

a term where the people who make up a corporation are treated the same as the corporation.

a testimony that is not relevant to the issues for consideration .

In old Scotch law . Disseisin ; dispossession . Skene.

The anatomical examination of a dead body by cutting into pieces orexscinding one or more parts or organs. Wehle v. Accident Ass’n. 11 Misc. Rep. 36, 31N. Y. Supp. 865; […]

To dispossess; to deprive.

One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands; one who is disseised.

Dispossession ; a deprivation of possession; a privation of seisin; ausurpation of the right of seisin and possession, and an exercise of such powers andprivileges of ownership as to keep […]

A female disseisor; a disseisoress . Fleta, lib. 4, c. 12,

One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully

A woman who unlawfully puts another out of his land.

Lat In the civil law . The mutual agreement of the parties to a simplecontract obligation that it shall be dissolved or annulled; technically, an undoing of theconsensus which created […]

Contrariety of opinion; refusal to agree with something already stated oradjudged or to an act previously performed.The term is most commonly used in American law to denote the explicitdisagreement of […]

Protestant seceders from the established church of England. They areof many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents, Methodists, and Baptists; but, as to church government, the Baptists are Independents.

The opinion in which a judge announces his dissent from the conclusions held by the majority of the court, and expounds his own views.

In old law. To break open a seal. Whishaw. Dissimilinm dissimilis est ratio. Co.Litt. 191. Of dissimilars the rule is dissimilar. Dissimnlatione tollitnr injuria. An injury is extinguished by the […]

This term applies to a person with debt who will squander his money and not pay his creditors.

This term is given to a person with no regard for the social standards expected of him and he behaves in a lewd, immoral and unrestrained way.

In contracts. The dissolution of a contract is the cancellation or abrogation of it by the partiesthemselves, with the effect of annulling the binding force of the agreement, andrestoring each […]

The crown may dissolve parliament either in person or by proclamation ; the dissolutionis usually by proclamation, after a prorogation . No parliament may last for a longerperiod than seven […]

To terminate; abrogate; cancel; annul; disintegrate. To release orunloose the binding force of anything. As to “dissolve a corporation ,” to “dissolve aninjunction.” See DISSOLUTION .

A bond given to obtain the dissolution of a legal writ orprocess, particularly an attachment or an injunction , and conditioned to indemnify theopposite party or to abide the judgment […]

In criminal law . To advise and procure a person not to do an act.To dissuade a witness from giving evidence against a person indicted is an indictableoffense at common […]

To subject to a process of distillation, i. e