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Descriptio personae






Descriptio personae

Description of the person. In wills, it frequently happens, that the word heir is used as a descriptio personae; it is then a sufficient designation of the person.

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Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.

Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.

Heir
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is an established rule of law, that God alone can make an heir. According to many authorities, heir may be nomen collectivuum, as well in a deed as in a will, and operate in both in the same mannar, as heirs in the plural number.

Designation
Wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name.



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Descendant
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents. The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants.

Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.

Descender
In the descent; as formedon in the descender.

Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.



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Derivative power
An authority by which one person enables another to do an act for him.

Derogation
Civil law. The partial abrogation of a law; to derogate from a law is to enact something which is contrary to it.

Descendant
Those person who are born of, or from children of, another are called that person's descendants. Grandchildren are descendants of their grandfather as children are descendants of their natural parents. The law also distinguishes between collateral descendants and lineal descendants.

Descendants
Those who have issued from an individual, and include his children, grandchildren, and their children to the remotest degree.

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In the descent; as formedon in the descender.

Descriptio personae

Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.

Deserter
One who abandons his post.

Desertion
"1) Criminal law. An offence which consists in the abandonment of the public service, in the army or navy, without leave. 2) Torts. The act by which a man abandons his wife and children, or either of them.

Desertion of seamen
Contracts. The abandonment, by a sailor, of a ship or vessel, in which he engaged to perform a voyage, before the expiration of his time, and without leave.

Desertion, malicious
The act of a hushand or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation.

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