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In the civil law. A royal charter; letters patent granted by a prince or sovereign. Calvin

Belonging to a diocese; a bishop, as he stands related to his own clergy or flock

In Spanish law. Money. Dincro contado, money counted, white, New Recop. b. 2, tlt. 13, c. 1,_| 1

A government ot two persons

In old conveyancing. [He] has demised. See Dimisi

SI. In old conveyancing. I have demised. Dimisi, concessi, et ad flrmam tradidi, have demised, granted, and to farm let. Tbe usual words of operation ln a lease. 2 Bl. Comm. 317, 318

In the civil law. Dimi-nutlon; a taking away; loss or deprivation. Diminutio capitis, loss of status or condition. See Capitis Diminutio

The moiety or half of a thing

Half; a half; the half.

A silver coin of the United States^ of the value of ten cents, or one-tenth of the dollar

In old English law. Pottage formerly made for the king’s table on the coronation day. There was a tenure in serjeantry, by which lands were held of the king by the service of finding this pottage at that solemnity

(Fr. De lege ejectus, Lat.) outlawed

Prudence; vigilant activity; attentiveness; or care, of which there are Infinite shades, from the slightest momentary thought to the most vigilant ahx5> lety; but the law recognizes only three degrees of diligence: (1) Common or ordinary, which men, in general, exert in respect of their own concerns; the standard is neces-sarlly variable with respect to. […]

Tendlng or lntended to cause delay or to galn -time or to put off a decision

A st>ecles of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the Incumbent suffers any edifices of hls ecclesiastical living to go to ruin or decay. It is ei

In Spanish law. A space of time granted to a party to a suit in which to answer a demand or produce evidence of a disputed fact

Judicial decision or determination

In English law. An honor; a title, station, or distinction of honor. Dlg-nities are a species of incorporeal heredita-ments, in which a person may have a property or estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 37; 1 Bl. Comm. 396; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. 468, et seq

RY. In canon law.- A person bolding an ecclesiastical benefice or dignity, which gave him some pre-eminence above mere priests and canons. To this class exclusively belonged all bishops, deans, arch-deacons, etc.; but lt now Includes all the prebendaries and canons of the church. Brande

A collection or compllation, embodying the chief, matter of numerous books in one, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement, for facility in reference

In old English law. To deny, or keep from one. Difforciare rectum, to deny justice to any one, after having been required to do it

To destroy; to disfigure or deface

Fr. God and

In Scotch law. The days within which parties in civil and criminal prosecutions are cited to appear. Bell

A general legislative assembly Is sometimes so called on the continent of Europe

Lat In Roman law. This name was given to a notice promulgated by a magistrate of his Intention to present an impeachment against a citizen before the peo-ple, specifying the day appointed, the name of the accused, and the crime charged

See Dtino without Issue

In general. A statement, re-mark, or observation. Gratis dictum; a gra-tuitous or voluntary representation; one which a party is not bound to make. 2 Kent, Comm. 486. Simplex dictum; a mere as-sertlon; an assertion without proof. Bract, fol. 320

Arbitrators

A magistrate Invested with unlimited power, and created in times of na-tional distress and peril. Among the Ro-mans, he continued in ofiice for six months only, and had unlimited power and authority over both the property and lives of the citizens

In Louisiana, this term is used in a technical sense, aud means to pronounce orally what ls destined to be written at the same time by another. It is used in reference to nuncupative wills. Prendergast v. Prendergast, 16 La. Anu. 220, 79 Am. Dec. 575

To order or instruct what is to be said or writteu. To pronounce, word by word, what is meant to be written by an-other. Hamilton v. Hamilton, 6 Mart. (N. S.) (La.) 143

Small cubes of bone or ivory, marked with figures or devices on their sev-eral sides, used in playing certain games of chance. See wetmore v. State, 55 Ala. 198

An oflicer iu ancient Greece an-ewering in some respects to our juryman, but combining, on trials had before them, the functions of both judge and jury. The di-casts sat together iu numbers varying, ac-cordiug to the importance of the case, from one to five hundred

In old English law. A tally for accounts, hy number of cuts, (taillees,) marks, or notches. CoweU. See Tallia, Tally

ln old records. Daily; every day; from day to day. Spelman

Dally food, or as much as will suffice for the day. Du Cange

A logical reasoning in a pro-gresslve manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond

Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatise on the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others to Richard Fitz Nigel, bishop of London in the reign of Richard I. lt is quoted, by lord Coke under the uame of ockham. Crabb, Eng. Law, 71

A rhetorical figure in which arguments are placed ln various points of view, and then turned to one point. Enc. Lond

That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of rea-soning

A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient’s illness or the determination of tlie nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more than a guess enlighten-ed by experience. Swan v. Railroad Co., 79 Hun, 612, 29 N. Y. Supp. 337

A deacon

The office of a deacon

L. Lat In old writs. An abbreviation of dilecto et fideli, (to his be-loved and faithful

In maritime law. The contract which takes place between the own-er of a ship, the captain, and the mariners, who agree that the voyage shall be for the benefit of all. The term is used ln the ltal-lan law Emerig. Mar. Loans, j 5

To shake hands in token of friendship; or to give up oneself to the power of another person

one at the right hand of another

Lat. In Roman law. A di-vision of tbe as, consisting of ten uneiae; ten-twelfths, or five-sixths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m

L. Fr. Dies; deceases. Bend-ioe, 5