| Pronunciation: | | d`isb'ârmunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law |
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| | See Also: | | banishment, proscription |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*bar"ment\, n.
Act of disbarring.
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| Legal Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Form of discipline of a lawyer resulting in the loss (often permanently) of that lawyer's right to practice law. (See censure or suspension.) |
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| | Related Terms: | | banishment, blackballing, cashiering, deconsecration, defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deposal, deposition, deprivation, dethronement, disbarring, discrownment, disenthronement, disfellowship, dismissal, displacement, displuming, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, firing, forced resignation, fugitation, impeachment, kicking upstairs, liquidation, ostracism, ostracization, ousting, outlawing, outlawry, overthrow, overthrowal, pensioning off, purge, relegation, removal, retirement, rustication, stripping, superannuation, suspension, transportation, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating |
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