To deprive commonable lands of their commonable quality, by inclosing and appropriating or improving them. … [Read more...]
DISCRIMINATION
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...]
DISCONTINUANCE
(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...]
DISAGREEMENT
Difference of opinion or want of uniformity or concurrence of views; as, a disagreement among the members of a jury, among the judges of a court, or between arbitrators. Darnell v. Lyon, 85 Tex. 466, 22 S. W. 364; Insurance Co. v. poying, 55 N. J. Law, 569, 27 Atl. 927; Fowble v. Insurance Co., 106 Mo. App. 527, 81 S. W. 485. , In real property law. The refusal by a grantee, … [Read more...]
DISCHARGE
(A) practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeanor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge. 2. The discharge of a defendant, in prison under a ca. sa., when made by the plaintiff, has the operation of satisfying the debt, … [Read more...]