To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, etc Webster. … [Read more...]
DISJUNCTIM
Lat. In the civil law. Separately; severally. The opposite of conjunctim. {q. v.) Inst 2, 20, 8. … [Read more...]
DISFRANCHISEMENT
The act of disfranchising. The act of depriving a member of a corporation of his right as such, by expulsion. It differs from amotion, (q. v.) which is applicable to the removal of an officer from office, leaving him his rights as a member. Willcock, Mun. Corp. no. 708; Ang. & A. Corp. 237. In a more popular sense, the taking away of the elective franchise (that is, the … [Read more...]
DISJUNCTIVE ALLEGATION
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
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...]