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One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor. Blackstone.

ntaining or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. Blackstone. Declinatory plea (O. Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.

A half-vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges. Blackstone.

; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

or unto. Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not. Blackstone. His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other. Macaulay. Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he…

Detention. [R.] Blackstone.

at his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone.

Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator. Blackstone.

son, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.

e. An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit. Blackstone.

und; to exempt from forest laws. By charter 9 Henry III. many forests were disafforested. Blackstone.

ration. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.

To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone. Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. [Obs.] "Nature disclaims in thee." Shak.

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

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

sessions; 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.

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

ined 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 jur…