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DISCREPANCY. A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance. (q. v.)2. Discrepancies are material and immater...

DISCOUNT, practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action. Vin. Ab. h. t.DISCOUNT, contracts. An allowance made upon prompt payment in the purchase o...

DISCONTINUANCE, pleading. A chasm or interruption in the pleading.2. It is a rule, that every pleading, must be an answer to the whole of what is adve...

DISCHARGED. Released, or liberated from custody. It is not equivalent to acquitted in a declaration for a malicious prosecution. 2 Yeates, 475 2 Term ...

DISCHARGE OF A CONTRACT. The act of making a contract or agreement null.2. Contracts may be discharged by, 1. Payment. 2. Accord and satisfaction. 8 C...

DISAFFIRMANCE. The act by which a person who has entered into a voidable contract; as, for example, an infant, does disagree to such contract, and dec...

DIRECTORY. That which points out a thing or course of proceeding; for example, a directory law.DIRIMANT IMPEDIMENTS, canon law. Those bars to a marria...

DIPLOMATICS. The art of judging of ancient charters, public documents or diplomas, and discriminating the true from the false. Encyc. Lond. h. t.DIREC...

DIME, money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.2. It weighs forty-one and a quarter grains. ...

DIGNITIES. English law. Titles of honor.2. They are considered as incorporeal hereditaments.3. The genius of our government forbids their admission in...