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Definition of Deraign
1. v. t. To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self).
Definition of Deraign
1. Verb. (legal obsolete transitive) To prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To engage in (battle, combat etc.). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deraign
1. to dispute a claim [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deraign
Literary usage of Deraign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary: Comprising the Terms and Phrases of American by Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf (1922)
"In Texas, and perhaps other state?, it is used to signify the assertion or proof
of title from an ancestor or predecessor, e. д., "to deraign title from the ..."
2. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"... to deraign a warranty paramount, (90) but never to recover pro rata against
her by force of the warranty in law upon the partition ; for Littleton here ..."
3. Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American Or English Jurisprudence by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (1879)
"Tillotson v. Cheetham, 2 Johns. 63. deraign. Seems to mean, literally, to confound
and disorder, or to turn out of course, or displace; ..."
4. Year Books of Edward II. by Frederic William Maitland, William Craddock Bolland, G J Turner, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, Ludwik Ehrlich (1904)
"The marriage between them was never undone by divorce, and her husband is alive,
and an action is given to the wife to deraign her husband out of this Order ..."
5. A Dictionary of American and English Law: With Definitions of the Technical by Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence (1888)
"See ARRAIGN.) Hence it signified to establish one's right, or to recover by legal
proceedings. ( Britt. 98b, 230a.) The word deraign "commeth of the French ..."
6. A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Emory Washburn (1864)
"... other " to deraign the warranty " as to the estate, that is, to avail himself
of the benefit of the general warranty which had attached to the estate, ..."
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