To disable a person. … [Read more...]

The act of making a contract or agreement null. 2. Contracts may be discharged by, 1. Payment. 2. Accord and satisfaction. 3. Release. 4. Set off. 5. The rescission of the contracts. 6. Extinguishment. 7. Confusion, where the duty to pay and the right to receive unite in the same person. 8. Extinction, or the loss of the subject matter of the contract. 9. Defeasance. 10. The … [Read more...]

In ecclesiastical law. This is where the appropriation of a benefice is severed, either by the patron presenting a clerk or by the corporation which has the appropriation being dissolved. 1 Bl. Comm. 385. … [Read more...]

practice. The dismissal of a jury who had been charged with the trial of a cause. 2. Questions frequently arise, whether if the court discharge a jury before they render a verdict, in a criminal case, the prisoner can again be tried. In cases affecting life or members, the general rule is that when a jury have been sworn and charged, they cannot be discharged by the court, or … [Read more...]

To fail to approve. To fail to support. To deny. … [Read more...]