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To subject to a process of distillation, i.e., vaporizing the more volatile parts of a substance and then condensing the vapor so formed. In law, the term is chiefly used in connection with the manufacture of intoxicating liquors. Distilled liquor or distilled spirits. A term which includes all potable alcoholic liquors obtained by the process of distillation, (such as whisky, … [Read more...] about DISTILL

torts. The privation of seisin. It takes the seisin or estate from one man and places it in another. It is an ouster of the rightful owner from the seisinor estate in the land, and the coinmencement of a new estate in the wrong doer. It may be by abatement, intrusion, discontinuance, or deforcement, as well as by disseisin, properly so called. Every dispossession is not a … [Read more...] about DISSEISIN

Unique. Clearly different from others. … [Read more...] about DISTINCT

A female disseisor; a disselsoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c 12, f 4. … [Read more...] about DISSEISITRIX

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