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DISJUNCTIVE ALLEGATION

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A statement in a pleading or indictment which expresses or charges a thing alternatively, with the conjunction "or;" for instance, an averment that defendant "murdered or caused to be murdered," etc." would be of this character. … [Read more...]

DISGAVEL

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In English law. To deprive lands of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which they descend equally among all the sons of the tenant 2 Wood. Lect 70; 2 Bl. Comm. 85. … [Read more...]

DISJUNCTIVE ALLEGATIONS

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A claim where a plaintiff or prosecutor will allege that something or something else occurred. Such a claim is improper in a lawsuit since the defendant has a right to know, with certainty, what he or she is being alleged to have done in order to mount a proper defense. … [Read more...]

DISGRACE

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Ignominy, shame, dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. … [Read more...]

DISJUNCTIVE TERM

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One which is placed between two contraries, by the affirming of one of which, the other is taken away: it is usually expressed by the word or. … [Read more...]

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