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Disinterested witness
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Disinterested witnessOne who has no interest in the cause or matter in is-sue, and who is lawfully competent to testify.
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Interest
1) Estates. The right which a man has in a chattel real, and more particularly in a future term. It is a word of less efficacy and extent than estates, though, in legal understanding, an interest extends to estates, rights and titles which a man has in or out of lands, so that by a grant of his whole interest in land, a reversion as well as the fee simple shall pass. 2) Contracts. The right of property which a man has in a thing, commonly called insurable interest. 3) Evidence. The benefit which a person has in the matter about to be decided and which is in issue between the parties.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Matter
Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts.
Testify
To testify. To give evidence according to law; the examination of a witness who declares his knowledge of facts.
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Disinheritance
The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit.
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Disfranchisement
The act of depriving a member of a corporation of his right as such, by expulsion.
Disgrace
Ignominy, shame, dishonor.
Disherison
Obsolete. Disinheritance; depriving one of an inheritance.
Disheritor
Obsolete.One who disinherits, or puts another out of his freehold.
Disinheritance
The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit.
Disinterested witness
Disjunctive term
One which is placed between two contraries, by the affirming of one of which, the other is taken away.
Dismes
Another name for tithes. Dime, a piece of federal money, is sometimes improperly written disme.
Dismiss
The termination of a case without a final disposition of the matter.
Dismissal
Dismissal may take place if the employer terminates the contract of employment, or if a fixed contract of employment expires. It also occurs in cases of constructive dismissal (breach of contract by the employer leading to the employee's resignation); or deemed dismissal in the case of refusal to allow a woman back to work after maternity leave. It may be contrasted with resignation (at the employee's instance) which does not amount to dismissal
Disobedience
The want of submission to the orders of a superior.
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Interest
1) Estates. The right which a man has in a chattel real, and more particularly in a future term. It is a word of less efficacy and extent than estates, though, in legal understanding, an interest extends to estates, rights and titles which a man has in or out of lands, so that by a grant of his whole interest in land, a reversion as well as the fee simple shall pass. 2) Contracts. The right of property which a man has in a thing, commonly called insurable interest. 3) Evidence. The benefit which a person has in the matter about to be decided and which is in issue between the parties.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Matter
Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts.
Testify
To testify. To give evidence according to law; the examination of a witness who declares his knowledge of facts.
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Disinheritance
The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Disfranchisement
The act of depriving a member of a corporation of his right as such, by expulsion.
Disgrace
Ignominy, shame, dishonor.
Disherison
Obsolete. Disinheritance; depriving one of an inheritance.
Disheritor
Obsolete.One who disinherits, or puts another out of his freehold.
Disinheritance
The act by which a person deprives his heir of an inheritance, who, without such act, would inherit.
Disinterested witness
Disjunctive term
One which is placed between two contraries, by the affirming of one of which, the other is taken away.
Dismes
Another name for tithes. Dime, a piece of federal money, is sometimes improperly written disme.
Dismiss
The termination of a case without a final disposition of the matter.
Dismissal
Dismissal may take place if the employer terminates the contract of employment, or if a fixed contract of employment expires. It also occurs in cases of constructive dismissal (breach of contract by the employer leading to the employee's resignation); or deemed dismissal in the case of refusal to allow a woman back to work after maternity leave. It may be contrasted with resignation (at the employee's instance) which does not amount to dismissal
Disobedience
The want of submission to the orders of a superior.
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