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As used in policies of insurance, leases, and in maritime law, this term is often applied to an act which renders the subject useless for its intended purpose, though it does not literally demolish or annihilate it. In re McCabe, 11 Pa. Super. Ct. 564; Solomon v. Kingston, 24 Hun (N. Y.) 564; Insurance Co. v. Feibelman, 118 Ala. 308, 23 South. 759; Spalding v. Munford, 37 Mo. … [Read more...] about DESTROY

Official communications of official Persons, on the affairs of government. 2. In general, the bearer of despatches is entitled to all the facilities that can be given him, in his own country, or in a neutral state; but a neutral cannot, in general, be the bearer of despatches of one of the belligerent parties. … [Read more...] about DESPATCHES

A term used in old English law generally in connection with waste and having according to some the same meaning. Britton however makes a distinction between waste of woods and destruction of houses. … [Read more...] about DESTRUCTION

Hopeless; worthless. This term is used in Inventories and schedules of assets, particularly by executors, etc., to describe debts or claims which are considered impossible or hopeless of collection. See Schultz v. Pulver, 11 Wend. (N. Y.) 365. Desperate debt. A hopeless debt; an Irrecoverable obligation. Of which there is no hope. 2. This term is used frequently, in making an … [Read more...] about DESPERATE

To weary a person with continual barkings, and then to bite; spoken of dogs. Leg Alured. 26, cited in Cunningham's Diet … [Read more...] about DESUBITO