Category: D

A female debtor

In the civil and old English law. A debtor

L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb, Eng. Law, 107

L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst

A sum charged as due or owing. The term is used ln book-keeping to denote the charging of a person or an account with all that Is supplied to or paid out for him or for the subject of the account

(Lat. He owes and is used to.) where a man sues ln a writ of right or to recover any right of which he is for tbe first time disseised, ns of a suit at a mill or in case of a writ of quod permittat

A stock or fund representing money borrowed by a company or public body, in England, and charged on the whole or part of its property

The executioner; hangman; he that executes the extreme penalty of the law

In Scotch law. A state of sickness which ends in death. Ersk. Inst 3, 8, 95

The extinction of life; tbe de-parture of the soul from the body; defined by physicians as a total stoppage of the cir-cu la tion of the Llood, and a cessation of the

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical dignitary who presides over the chapter of a cathedral, and is next in rank to the bishop. So called from having been originally appointed to superintend ten canons or prehendaries. 1 Bl. Comm. 382; Co. Lltt. 95; Spelman

To traffic; to transact business; to trade. Makers of an accommodation note are deemed dealers wlth whoever discounts it. Vernon v. Manhattan Co., 17 wend. (N. Y.) 524

In old English law. To discharge from being forest. To free from forest laws

A man that is born deaf, dumb, and blind ls looked upon by the law as ln the same state with an idlot, he being supposed incapable of any understand-ing. 1 Bl. Comm. 304. Nevertheless, a deaf and dumb person may be tried for felony if the prisoner can be made to understand by means […]

In Scotch law. The part remaining over beyond the shares se-cured to the wldow and children by law. of this the testator had the unqualified disposal. Bell

In old European law. A profession of irreconcilable hatred till a person is revenged even by the death of his enemy

This term is applied to persons other than the officers, agents, or em-ployes of a rallroad company who are per-mitted by the company to travel on the road without paying any fare therefor. Gardner v. Hall, 61 N. C. 21

A future use

In English law. A rent payable on a mining lease in addltlon to a royalty, so called because it is payable al-though the mine may not be worked

A mortgage; mortuum vadium

A corpse. The body of a human being, deprived of life, but not yet en-tirely disintegrated. Meads v. Dougherty County, 98 Ga. 697, 25 S. E. 915

ln ecclesiastical law. A minister or servant In the church, whose office is

A writ that lay where a man had a day in any action to appear in proper person, and the king at that day, or before, employed him in some service, so that he could not appear at the day incourt It was directed to the justices, that they should not record him to be […]

writ of warranty of charter. A writ which lay for him who was enfeoffed, with clause of war-ranty, [in the charter of feoffment,] and was afterwards impleaded ln an assise or other action, In which he could not vouch or call to warranty; in which cnse he might have this writ against the feoffor, or […]

From the neighborhood, or vicinage. 3 Bl. Comm. 360. A term ap-plled to a Jury

writ of (or for) removing lay force. A writ whlch lay where two parsons contended for a church, and one of them entered Into lt with a great number of laymen, and held out the other vi et armis; then he that was hqlden out had this writ directed to the sheriff, that he remove […]

Of the signification of words. An important title of the Digests or Pandects, (Dig. 50, 16.) consisting entirely of definitions of words-and phrases used in the Roman law.

Word for word. Bract fol. 138b. Literally, from word to word

A writ to inspect the body, where a woman feigns to be pregnant, to see whether she is with child. It lies for the heir presumptive to ex-amine a widow suspected to be feigning pregnancy in order to enable a supposititious heir to obtain the estate. 1 Bl. Comm. 456; 2 Steph. Comm. 287

writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in rever-sion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed waste in

A deed de nna parte is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds hlmself to do a thing to another. It differs from a deed infer partes, (q. v.) 2

A writ or commission for the hearing and determln-lng any outrage or misdemeanor

A writ of

A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. orig. 103

of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive

L. Fr. From time whereof memory runneth not; time out of memory of man. Litt 143, 145, 170

From time to time, and at all times. Townsh. Pl. 17

From time whereof the memory of man does not exist to the contrary. Litt $ 170.

of not allowing talliage. The name given to the statutes 25 and 34 Edw. I., restricting the power of the king to grant talliage. 2 Inst 532; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 104.

of show-ing the tablets of a will. Dig. 43, 5

The writ of statute staple. Reg. orig. 161

The

of

For behav-ing hlmself well; for his good behavior. Yelv. 90, 154

of or concerning the exchequer. The title of a statute passed in the fifty-first year of Henry III. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 61

A writ of

A writ of safe-guard allowed to strangers seeking thelr rights in English courts, and apprehending violence or injury to their persons or property. Reg. orig. 26

L. Fr. Guilty of nothing; not guilty

For hav-ing a return; to have a return. A term ap-plied to the judgment for the defendant in an action of replevin, awarding him a re-turn of the goods replevied; and to the writ or execution issued thereon. 2 Tidd, Pr. 993, 1038 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 149. Applied also to the sureties given by […]

writ of rescue or res-cous. A writ which lay where cattle dis-trained, or persons arrested, were rescued from those taking them. Reg. orig. 117, 118; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 101, C, G