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dishonor,vb.1.  To  refuse  to  accept  or  pay  (a  negotiable  instrument)  when  presented.  See NOTICE OF DISHONOR; WRONGFUL DISHONOR. [Cases: Bills and Notes    385–424. C.J.S. Bills and Notes; Letters of Credit§§ 4, 97–98, 202, 204–230, 257, 294, 299.] 2. To deface or defile (something, such as a flag). — dishonor,n. [Blacks Law 8th]

dishonest act.See FRAUDULENT ACT. [Blacks Law 8th]

disheritor   (dis-her-<<schwa>>-t<<schwa>>r   or   -tor).Archaic.   A   person   who   deprives someone of an inheritance. [Blacks Law 8th]

disherison (dis-her-<<schwa>>-z<<schwa>>n). See DISINHERITANCE.[Blacks Law 8th]  

disguised installment sale.See INSTALLMENT SALE. [Blacks Law 8th]

disguised dividend.See informal dividend under DIVIDEND. [Blacks Law 8th]

disgorgement,n.  The  act  of  giving  up  something  (such  as  profits  illegally  obtained)  on demand or by legal compulsion. [Cases: Securities Regulation    150. C.J.S. Securities Regulation §§ 274–276, 279.] — disgorge,vb. [Blacks Law 8th]

disgrading.Hist.  1.  The  act  of  degrading.  2.  The  depriving  of  an  order;  the  depriving  of  a “Disgrading,  or  degrading,  is  when  a  man  having  taken  upon  him  a  dignity  temporal  or spiritual,  is  afterwards  thereof  deprived,  be  he  knight,  clerk  or  other.  Whereof  if  a  clerk  be delivered to his ordinary, and cannot clear himself…

disfranchisement. See DISENFRANCHISEMENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

disfranchise. See DISENFRANCHISE. [Blacks Law 8th]