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A proceeding to suspend or to revoke an attorney's license to practice law. … [Read more...] about DISBARMENT PROCEEDING

In old English law. A conversion of wood grounds into arable or pasture; an assarting. Cowell. See ASSART. … [Read more...] about DISBOCATIO

In its ordinary sense, to disable is to cause a disability, (q. v.) In the old language of pleading, to disable Is to take advantage of one's own or another's disability. Thus, it is "an express maxim of the common law that the party shall not disable himself;" but "this disability to disable himself Is personal." 4 Coke, 123&. … [Read more...] about DISABLE

Literally, to take money out of a purse. Figuratively, to pay out money; to expend money; and some times it signifies to advance money. 2. A master of a ship makes disbursements, whether with his own money or that of the owner, when he defrays expenses for the ship. 3. An executor, guardian, trustee, or other accountant, is said to have made disbursements when he expended money … [Read more...] about DISBURSEMENT

These are acts of parliament restraining and regulating the exercise of a right or the power of alienation; the term is specially applied to 1 Eliz. c. 19, and similar acts restraining the power of ecclesiastical corporations to make leases. … [Read more...] about DISABLING STATUTES