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ng and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also disseisin.] Blackstone.

isseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold. [Written also disseisor.] Blackstone.

ons; the breaking up of a partnership. Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. Blackstone.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.

To flow. [Poetic] Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.

. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.

extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. Blackstone. Congressional district. See under Congressional. -- District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. -- District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdic…

Free from distrust. Shenstone.

on of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone.

ugh a tube from above. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. -- Diving stone, a kind of jasper.

An example for instruction or warning. [Obs.] They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others. Sir W. Raleigh.

A sort of stone, found in the mines with the true alum rock, chiefly of silica and iron.

rying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.

the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.

The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

t; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

e of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.

Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. Blackstone.