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To deprive of the rights of citizenship. [R.] We have no law -- as the French have -- to decitizenize a citizen. Edw. Bates.

3. Declaration of Independence. (Amer. Hist.) See under Independence. -- Declaration of rights. (Eng. Hist) See Bill of rights, under Bill. -- Declaration of trust (Law), a paper subscribed by a grantee of property, acknowledging that he holds it in trust for the purposes and upon the terms set forth. Abbott.…

A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

to avow; as, he declares the story to be false. I the Lord . . . declare things that are right. Isa. xlv. 19.

Established by a decree; definitive; settled. The decretory rigors of a condemning sentence. South.

Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.

ly; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.

l his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

, one's enemies. The lord mayor craves aid . . . to defend the city. Shak. God defend the right! Shak. A village near it was defended by the river. Clarendon.

or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection. War would arise in defense of the right. Tennyson. God, the widow's champion and defense. Shak.

mit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to. The house, deferring to legal right, acquiesced. Bancroft.

To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve. At some part of the Azores, the needle deflecteth not, but lieth in the true meridian. Sir T. Browne. To deflect from the line of truth and reason. Warburton.

The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth.

To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.

To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld. We have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and…

By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to be facto.

To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. [Obs.] Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.

One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.