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Dissolution of marriage
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Dissolution of marriageA legal judgment that severs a marriage relationship and returns each person to single status.
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Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Single
By itself, unconnected.
Status
The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property.
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Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution
1) Contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2) Practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character.
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Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution
1) Contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2) Practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character.
Dissolution of marriage
Distrainor
One who makes a distress of goods and chattels to enforce some right.
Distraint
The right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant which is in the premises being rented, as collateral against a tenant that has not paid the rent or has otherwise defaulted on the lease, such as wanton disrepair or destruction of the premises. A common way to "distrain" against a tenant is by changing locks and giving notice to the tenant. A legal action to reclaim goods that have been distrained is called replevin.
Distress infinite
English practice. A process commanding the sheriff to distrain a person from time to time, and continually afterwards, by taking his goods by way of pledge, to enforce the performance of something due from the party distrained upon.
Distribution
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law.
Distributive justice
That virtue, whose object it is to distribute rewards and punishments to every one according to his merits or demerits.
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Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.
Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Single
By itself, unconnected.
Status
The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property.
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Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution
1) Contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2) Practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character.
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Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution
1) Contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2) Practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character.
Dissolution of marriage
Distrainor
One who makes a distress of goods and chattels to enforce some right.
Distraint
The right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant which is in the premises being rented, as collateral against a tenant that has not paid the rent or has otherwise defaulted on the lease, such as wanton disrepair or destruction of the premises. A common way to "distrain" against a tenant is by changing locks and giving notice to the tenant. A legal action to reclaim goods that have been distrained is called replevin.
Distress infinite
English practice. A process commanding the sheriff to distrain a person from time to time, and continually afterwards, by taking his goods by way of pledge, to enforce the performance of something due from the party distrained upon.
Distribution
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law.
Distributive justice
That virtue, whose object it is to distribute rewards and punishments to every one according to his merits or demerits.
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