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Such as are not marked out on fixed lines, but allow a certain amount of discretion in their exercise. Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment … [Read more...] about DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS

To deprive commonable lands of their commonable quality, by inclosing and appropriating or improving them. … [Read more...] about DISCOMMON

To treat people who are in a similar situation in a different manner, positively or negatively, based upon a person's race, color, creed, gender, age or disability. … [Read more...] about DISCRIMINATION

(A) pleading. A chasm or interruption in the pleading. 2. It is a rule, that every pleading, must be an answer to the whole of what is adversely alleged. If, therefore, in an action of trespass for breaking a close, and cutting three hundred trees, the defendant pleads as to cutting all but two hundred trees, some matter of justification or title, and as to the two hundred … [Read more...] about DISCONTINUANCE

The termination or suspension of an estate-tail, in consequence of the act of the tenant in tall, in conveying a larger estate in the land than he was by law entitled to do. 2 Bl. Comm. 275 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 171. An alienation made or suffered by tenant in tail, or by any that is seised in outer droit, whereby the issue in tail, or the heir or successor, or those in reversion or … [Read more...] about DISCONTINUANCE OF AN ESTATE.