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When the IRS finds that a deduction should not have been taken by a taxpayer on their tax return; the deduction is disallowed. … [Read more...] about DISALLOWANCE

The discharge of one's debt as a result of a bankruptcy proceeding. … [Read more...] about DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY

To disable a person. … [Read more...] about DISALT

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...] about DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACT

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...] about DISAPPROPRIATION