Deraign, Dereyn, Or Dereine in United States

Deraign, Dereyn, Or Dereine Definition

(Law Lat. deraUonare, dirationare, or disrationare; Law Fr. dereiner, derener, disreigner, disrener, contra for deraisner or deraisoner). In old English law. To prove; to “deraign the warranty paramount.” St. 31 Hen. VIII. c. 1; Cowell. See Glanv. lib. 2, c. 3; Id. c. 6, 20; 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 123; Spelman, voc. “Dirationare.” In Texas, and perhaps other states, it is used to signify the assertion or proof of title from an ancestor or predecessor, e. g., “to deraign title from the original patentee or pre-emptor.” To disprove or refute the assertion of an adverse party. Spelman makes this to be the proper meaning, relying in particular upon the etymology of disrationare (from dis, contrary, and ratiodnari, to reason). To deny or refuse. “He cannot deraign battel.” Dyer, 137. See Barr. Obs. St. 328. To put out of place or order; to displace or disarrange; to turn one out of his order; to degrade. Some of the old books give the words this sense, deriving it either from the French disarrayer, to confound, or derayer, desranger, to derange or displace. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 136; Perkins, c. 1, § 3 (G). This derivation, however, is not approved by Spelman.

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(Law Lat. deraUonare, dirationare, or disrationare; Law Fr. dereiner, derener, disreigner, disrener, contra for deraisner or deraisoner). In old English law. To prove; to “deraign the warranty paramount.” St. 31 Hen. VIII. c. 1; Cowell. See Glanv. lib. 2, c. 3; Id. c. 6, 20; 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 123; Spelman, voc. “Dirationare.” In Texas, and perhaps other states, it is used to signify the assertion or proof of title from an ancestor or predecessor, e. g., “to deraign title from the original patentee or pre-emptor.” To disprove or refute the assertion of an adverse party. Spelman makes this to be the proper meaning, relying in particular upon the etymology of disrationare (from dis, contrary, and ratiodnari, to reason). To deny or refuse. “He cannot deraign battel.” Dyer, 137. See Barr. Obs. St. 328. To put out of place or order; to displace or disarrange; to turn one out of his order; to degrade. Some of the old books give the words this sense, deriving it either from the French disarrayer, to confound, or derayer, desranger, to derange or displace. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Co. Litt. 136; Perkins, c. 1, § 3 (G). This derivation, however, is not approved by Spelman.

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