Spanish law. The denouncement of a new work; being a proceeding to restrain the erection of some new work, as, for instance, a building which may, if completed, iInjuriously affect the property of the complainant; it is ...
2 Inst. 2. What is given to the church is given to God. t. H. & M. Decisions of Admiralty tempore Hay and Marriott.
(L. Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God.) In English law. Any personal chattel which was the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature, and which was forfeited to the ‘crown to be applied to pi...
be done. Declaratory part of a law. That which clearly defines rights to be observed and wrongs to be eschewed.—Declaratory statute. One enacted for the purpose of removing doubts or putting an end to conflicting decis...
1. One of the territorial divisions of a country. The term is chiefly used in this sense in France, where the division of the country into departments is somewhat analogous, both territorially and for governmental purpos...
public officer, whose duty it fs to prosecute offenders, that a crime has been committed. v. Wyler, 158 U. S. 285, 15 Sup. Ct. 877, 39
COURT. In old English practice. The tenant in a real action, having once appeared, was considered as constructively present in court until again called upon. Hence if, upon being demanded, he failed to appear, he was sai...
Lat. In the civil law. A kind of banishment, where a condemned person was sent or carried away to sonie foreign country, usually to an island, (in ineulam deportatur,) and thus taken out of the number of Roman citizens.
DEPONENT. In practice. One who deposes (that is, testifies or makes oath in writing) to the truth of certain facts; one who gives under oath testimony which is reduced to writing; one who makes oath to a written statemen...
DEPOSE. Im practice. In ancient usage, to testify as a witness; to give evidence under oath.
touching. it; and these last are of two sorts, —‘conventional,” or such as are made by the mere agreement of the parties without any judicial act; and “judicial,” or such a8 are made by order of a court in the ...
Lat. In the civil law. One of the forms of the contract.of bailment, being a naked bailment of goods to be Kept for the use of the bailor without reward.
In ecclesiastical law. The act of depriving a clergyman, by a competent tribunal, of his clerical orders, to punish him for some offense and to prevent his acting in future in his clerical character. Ayl. Par. 206... -
DEPRIVATION. In English ecclesiastical law. ‘he taking away from a clergyman his benefice or other spiritual promotion or. dignity, either by sentence declaratory in the proper court for fit and suffictent causes or in...
SLAVE. <A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no free dom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. Webster.
A steward of a manor may depute or authorize another to hold a court; and the acts done in a court so holden will be as legal as if the court had been holden by the chief steward in person. So an under steward or deputy ...
1. A delineation or account of a particular subject by the recital of its characteristic accidents and qualities.
king, but théir ordinary jurisdiction by the law. ss -
rege; jurisdictio vero ordinaria a lege. 4 Inst. 74. The appointment of justices is by. the
in a will, and includes all who proceed from the body of the person named; as grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Amb. 397; 2
Lat. Description of the person. By this is meant a word or phrase used merely for the purpose of identifying or pointing out the person intended, and not as an intimation that the language in connection with which it occ...
L. Fr. ‘Unreasonable.
DESPOIL. This word involves, in its l signification, violence or clandestine means l by which one is deprived of that which he‘ possesses. Its Spanish equivalent, despojar, is a term used in Mexican law. Sunol v.
Lat. In the civil law. A summoning made, or hotice given, in the. presence of witnesses, (denuntiatio facta cum testatione.) Dig. 50, 16, 40.
Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods,
8 B. Mon. (Ky.) 314; Guille v. Fook, 18 Or. 577, 11 Pac. 277.
sel. Schmidt v. Insurance Co., 1 Johns. (N.
MARRIAGE. A writ formerly available to a wife after a divorce, for the recovery of the goods given with her in marriage. Mozley & Whitley.
v. Renchard (C. C.) 9 Fed. 298; National Hollow Brake Beam Co. v.
Lat. In the Roman law. A division of the as, containing eleven uncie or duodecimal parts; the proportion of eleven-twelfths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. See As.
595. Testandi, with intention to make a will. See ANiIMUS and the titles which follow it. L. Devereux’ 8 North Carolina Law ‘Reports. -
offender without sureties or pledges. Cowell.
DEUTEROGAMY. The act, or condition, of one who marries a wife after the death of a former wife.
- “DEVEATION.-In insurance. Varying from the risks insured against, as described in the policy, without necessity or just cause, after the risk has begun. 1 Phil. Ins. § 977, ét seq.; 1 Arn. Ins. 415, et seg. Hostett...
and -wrenched together so as to break the back. Cowell.
of them by will that thereby no estate vests at the death of the devisor, but only on some future contingency. It differs from a remainder in three very material points: (1) That it needs not any particular estate to sup...
L. Fr. deceases. Bend-
615; Leadville Co. v.
Lat. In Roman law.. A division of the as, consisting of ten uncie;
juris, sive facti. Concerning the fidelity and official conduct of a judge, no question is [will be] entertained; but [only] concerning his knowledge, whether the error [committed] be of law or of fact. Bac. Max. 68, reg...
(or Dy.). ‘King’s Bench.
L. Lat. In old writs. An abbreviatlon of dilecto et fideli, (to his beloved and faithful.)
execution of the judgment appealed from.
logue of or about the exchequer. An ancient trentise 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. It ts quoted, by Lord...
DIANATIC. A logical reasoning in a progressive manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond.
255, 56 N. W. 608, 23 L. R. A. 449; Cole v. Kerr, 19 Neb. 553, 26 N. W. 598;:. Long v. Hines, 40 Kan. 220, 19 Pac. 796, 10 Am. St. Rep. 192.
227, 6 Am. ‘Dec. ‘58.
254; In re Devlin, 7 Fed.
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 people, specifying the day appointed, the name of the accused, and th...
(Lat. He has closed his last day,—died.) A writ which formerly lay on the death of a tenant, in capite, to ascertain the lands of which he died seised, and reclaim them into the king's hands. It was directed to the kin...