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Desuetude
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DesuetudeThis term is applied to laws which have become obsolete.
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Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
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Despoil
Imports the use of violence or of clandestine means to deprive a person of something he possesses.
Despot
This word, in its most simple and original acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch; but, taken in bad part, as it is usually employed, it signifies a tyrant. In some states, despot is the title given to the sovereign, as king is given in others.
Despotism
Government. That abuse of government, where the sovereign power is not divided, but united in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title.
Desrenable
French law. Unreasonable.
Destination
Common law. The port at which a ship is to end her voyage is called her port of destination.
Desuetude
Determinable
What may come to an end, by the happening of a contingency; as a determnable fee.
Determinable fee
Also called a qualified or base fee, is one which has a quality subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at in end.
Determinate
That which is ascertained; what is particularly designated.
Determination
The end, the conclusion, of a right or authority.
Detinet
He detains.
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Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
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Despoil
Imports the use of violence or of clandestine means to deprive a person of something he possesses.
Despot
This word, in its most simple and original acceptation, signifies master and supreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch; but, taken in bad part, as it is usually employed, it signifies a tyrant. In some states, despot is the title given to the sovereign, as king is given in others.
Despotism
Government. That abuse of government, where the sovereign power is not divided, but united in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title.
Desrenable
French law. Unreasonable.
Destination
Common law. The port at which a ship is to end her voyage is called her port of destination.
Desuetude
Determinable
What may come to an end, by the happening of a contingency; as a determnable fee.
Determinable fee
Also called a qualified or base fee, is one which has a quality subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at in end.
Determinate
That which is ascertained; what is particularly designated.
Determination
The end, the conclusion, of a right or authority.
Detinet
He detains.
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