A term which includes all potable alcoholic liquors obtained by the process of distillation,(such as whisky, brandy, rum. and gin) but excludes fermented and malt liquors, suchas wine and beer. […]

Every person who produces distilled spirits, or who brews or makes mash, wort, or wash, fit fordistillation or for the production of spirits, or who. by any process of evaporization,separates […]

The strict meaning of “distillery” is a place orbuilding where alcoholic liquors are distilled or manufactured ; not every building wherethe process of distillation is used. Atlantic Dock Co. v. […]

In old English practice. Distinctly and openly. Formal wordsin writs of error, referring to the return required to be made to them. Reg. Orig. 17.Distingucnda sunt tempora. The time is […]

To point out an essential difference; to prove a case cited as applicable, inapplicable.

This means to give a false meaning to something and to misrepresent.

A term used In the statutes of Illinois (Rev. Laws. 111. 1833,p. 332) and New Hampshire (Dig. X. II. Laws, 1S30, p. 339) to express a state ofinsanity. Snyder v. […]

Lat. In the civil law . A separation or division into parts; also analienation or sale. Sometimes applied to the act of a guardian in appropriating the property of his […]

The sale at retail of the property of an insolvent estate, under themanagement of a curator appointed in the interest of the creditors, and for the purposeof realizing as much […]

The sale of a thing pledged or hypothecated, by the creditoror pledgee, to obtain satisfaction of his claim on tlie debtor’s failure to pay or redeem. Idem. >) 348.

To sell; to draw apart; to dissolve a contract; to divorce. Calvin.

To take as a pledge property of another, and keep the same until heperforms his obligation or until the property is replevied by the sheriff. It was used tosecure an […]

He who seizes a distress.

Seizure; the act of distraining or making a distress.

The taking a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrong-doer intothe custody of the party injured , to procure a satisfaction for a wrong committed; as fornou-paymeut of […]

One that has no bounds with regard to its quantity, and may he repeatedfrom time to time, until the stubbornness of the party is conquered. Such aredistresses for fealty or […]

A writ authorizing an officer to made a distraint; particularly, awrit authorizing the levy of a distress on the chattels of a tenant for non-payment ofrent. Bailey ville v. Lowell, […]

An ASSET, generally a security or real property that features a sharply reduced value as a result of actual or potential losses created by an excess of CREDIT RISK , […]

An heir; a person entitled to share in the distribution of au estate.This term is admissible to denote one of the persons who are entitled, under the statuteof distributions, to […]

In practice . The apportionment and division, under authority of acourt, of the remainder of the estate of an intestate, after payment of the debts andcharges, among those who are […]

This means to give the corporation ‘s assets to the stockholders that deprives the creditors payment of claims.

Exercising or accomplishing distribution ; apportioning, dividing, and assigning in separate items or shares.

The jury are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears tothem to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are […]

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The share or portion which a given heir receives on the legal distribution of an intestate estate, People v. Beckwith,10 N. Y. St. Itep. 97; Page v. Rives, 18 Fed. […]