(1) To provide assets to another, typically used with regard to some instrument that will pay or provide an asset to another, e.g. the distribution of assets of a trust or an estate. (2) To provide something to multiple people or parties, e.g. to distribute a product, to distribute a drug (which would could constitute a separate criminal offense.) … [Read more...] about DISTRIBUTE
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DISTRIBUTEE
An heir; a person entitled to share in the distribution of an estate. This term is admissible to denote one of the persons who are entitled, under the statute of distributions, to the personal estate of one who is dead Intestate. Henry v. Henry, 31 N. C. 278; Kitchen v. Southern Ry., 68 S. C. 554, 48 S. E. 4. … [Read more...] about DISTRIBUTEE
DISTRIBUTION
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law. 2. The English statute of 22 and 23 Car. II. c. 10, which was itself probably borrowed from the 118th Novel of Justinian, is the foundation of, perhaps, most acts of distribution in the several states. In practice. The apportionment and division, under authority of a court, of the remainder of … [Read more...] about DISTRIBUTION
DISSEISITRIX
A female disseisor; a disselsoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c 12, f 4. … [Read more...] about DISSEISITRIX
DISTINCTE ET APERTE
In old English practice. Distinctly and openly. Formal words in writs of error, referring to the return required to be made td them. Reg. Orig. 17. Distinguenda sunt tempore. The time is to 'be considered. 1 Coke, 16a; Bloss y. Tobey, 2 Pick. (Mass.) 327; Owens v. Missionary Society; 14 N. Y. 380, 393, 67 Am. Dec. 160. Distingueuda 9nnt tempore; aliud est faeere, aliud … [Read more...] about DISTINCTE ET APERTE