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In pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a former pleading, and assume a new one. See DEPARTURE. In maritime law. To leave a port; to be out of a port. To depart imports more than to sail, or set sail. A warranty in a policy that a vessel shall depart on or before a particular day is a warranty not only that she shall sail, but that she shall be out of the port … [Read more...] about DEPART

A territory distinct from the country in which the supreme sovereign power resides, but belonging rightfully to It, and subject to the laws and regulations which the sovereign may think proper to prescribe U. S. v. The Nancy, 3 Wash. C. C. 286, Fed. Cas. No. 15,854. It differs from a colony, because it is not settled by the citizens of the sovereign or mother state; and from … [Read more...] about DEPENDENCY

In pleading. The formal mode of disputing the sufficiency in law of the pleading of the other side. In effect it is an allegation that, even if the facts as stated in the pleading to which objection is taken he true, yet their legal consequences are not such as to put the demurring party to the necessity of answering them or proceeding further with the cause. Law Dictionary - … [Read more...] about DEMURRER

An English statute, for the amendment of the law of evidence, (6 A 7 Vict c. 85,) which provides that no person offered as a witness shall thereafter be excluded by reason of incapacity, from crime or interest, from giving evidence. … [Read more...] about DENMAN'S (LORD) ACT

Eng. law. When an issue in law is formed, a transcript is made upon paper of all the pleadings that have been filed or delivered between the parties, which transcript is called the demurrer book. Steph. Pl. 95. See Paper book. … [Read more...] about DEMURRER BOOK