DE ARTE. ET PARTE
king’s money to serve in the war, and hid himself to escape going. Reg. Orig. 240.
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DE CONTUMACE CAPIENDO. Writ
for taking a contumacious person. A writ which issues out of the English court of chancery, in cases where a person has been pronounced by an ecclesiastical court to be contumacious, and in contempt. Shelf. Mar. & Div. 494496, and notes. It is a comm...
DE ESTOVERIIS HABENDIS
DE DOTE ASSIGNANDA. Writ for assigning dower. A writ which lay for the widow of a tenant in capite, commanding the king’s escheater to cause her dower to be assigned to her. Reg. Orig. 297; Fitzh.
DE EXEOCUTIONE FACIENDA IN
WITHERNAMIUM. Writ for making execution in withernam. Reg. Orig. 820. A species of capias in wtthernam.
DE EXONERATIONE SECTZ. Writ
for exoneration of suit. A writ that lay for the king’s ward to be discharged of all suit
DE EXPENSIS CIVIUM ET BURGEN
SIUM. <An obsolete writ addressed to the sheriff to levy the expenses of every citizen and burgess of parllament. 4 Inst. 46.
DE EXPENSIS MILITUM LEVANDIS
Writ for levying the expenses of knights. A writ directed to the sheriff for levying the allowance for knights of the shire in parliament. Reg. Orig. 1910, 192.
DE FINE NON CAPIENDO PRO PUI
OHRE PLACITANDO. A writ prohibiting the taking of fines for beau pleader. Reg.
DE JUDAISMO, STATUTUM. The
name of a statute passed in the reign of Edward I. which enacted severe and arbitrary penalties against the Jews.
DE MODERATA MISERICORDIA CA~
PIENDA. Writ for taking a moderate amercement. A writ, founded on Magna
DE STATUTO MERCATORIO. The
writ of statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 146b.
DE TALLAGIO NON CONCEDENDO
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. 582; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 104..
DECANIA
DECANTIA.: The office, jurisdiction, territory, or command of a decanus, or dean. Spelman.
Declinatory exceptions are such
dilatory exceptions as merely decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom the. action is brought. Code Proc. La. 3834.
DEDIMUS ET CONCESSIMUS
(Lat. We have given and granted.) Words used by the king, or where there were more grantors than one, instead of dedi et concessi.
Denison, 20 Wend
(x. Y.) 181.—Master of the crown office. e king’s coroner and attorney in the crimina] department of the court of king’s bench, who prosecutes at the relation of some private person or common informer, the crown being the nominal prosecutor. St...
Dennett, 44 N. H. 537, 84 Am. Dec
97; Potts v. House, 6 Ga. 350, 50, Am. Dec. 0929: Jackson v. King, 4 Cow. (N. Y.) 207, 15. Am. Dec. 354; Stanton v. Wetherwax, 16 Barb. (N. Y.). 262.
DENOMINATIO FIERI DEBET
the fief, and all the rights and incidents belonging to it. Guyot, Inst. Feud. c. 3.
DEPARTMENT
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 purposes, to the division of an Amer...
DEPORTATION
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 statement. The party making an affidav...
DER
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.
DESCRIPTION
1. A delineation or account of a particular subject by the recital of its characteristic accidents and qualities.
DESIGNATIO .PERSON Z
king, but théir ordinary jurisdiction by the law. ss -
Di
(or Dy.). ‘King’s Bench.
DIANATIO
DIANATIC. A logical reasoning in a progressive manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond.
DIOCESAN COURTS
DIOCESAN COURTS. In English law. The consistorial courts of each diocese, exereising general jurisdiction of all matters arising locally within their respective limits, with the exception of places subject to peculiar jurisdiction; deciding all matte...
DISSOLUTION
Disseisinam satis facit, qui uti non permittit possessorem, vel minus commode, licet omnino non expellat. Co. ence as a body politic. This may take place in several ways; as by act of the legislature, where that is constitutional; by surrender or fo...
DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT
The crown may dissolve parliament either in person or by proclamation; the dissolution is usually by proclamation, after a prorogation. No parliament may last for a longer period than seven years. Septennial Act, 1 Geo. I. ce. 88. Under 6 Anne, c. 37...
DO, LEGO
Lat. I give, I bequeath; or I give and bequeath. The formal words of making a bequest or legacy, in the Roman law. Titio et Seto hominem Stichum do, lego, I give and bequeath to Titius and Selus my man Stichus. Inst. 2, 20, 8, 30, 31. The expression ...
Doe and Richard Roe
3 Bl. Comm. 287.— Bail court. In English law and practice. An auxiliary court of the court of queen’s bench at Westminster, wherein points connected more