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Lat. In the civil and old English law. <A house or dwelling; a habitation. Inst. 4, 4, 8; Townsh. Pl. 183-185. Bennet v. Bittle, 4 Rawle (Pa.) 342. —Domus capitularis. In old records. A chapter-house; the chapter-house, Dyer, 260. —Domus converso...
52, 39 Atl. 248.—Gemeeral election. (1) One at which the officers to be elected are such as belong to the general government,—that is, the general and central political organization of the whole state; as distinguished from an election of officer...
DRAWER. The person making a bill of exchange and addressing it to the drawee. Stevenson v. Walton, 2 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 265; Winnebago County State Bank v. Hus-. tel, 119 Iowa, 115, 98 N. W. 70.
644, 16 N. W. 14; Doyle v. Metropolitan -El. R. Co., 1 Misc. Rep. 376, 20 N. Y. upp. 865.—Long parliament. The name usually given to the parliament which met in November. 1640,-under Charles I., and was dissolved by Cromwell on the 10th of April, 1...
‘DUCROIRE. In French law. Guaranty; equivalent to del credere, (which see.)
particular circumstances. Lawrence v. Bowman, 1 McAll. 420, 15 Fed. Cas. 21; Slattery v. Doyle, 180 Mass. 27, 61 N. EB. 264; Wilde v. Wilde, 2 Nev. 306.—Due process of law. Law in its regular course of administration through courts of justice. 3 St...
~? DUTIES. In its most usual signification this word is the synonym of imposts or customs; but it is sometimes used in a broader sense, as including all manner of taxes, charges, or governmental impositions. Pollock v. Farmers’ L. & T. Co., 158 U. ...
(or Dyer). Dyer’s English King’s Bench Reports.
(Ellis) Best & Smith's English Queen’s Bench Reports.
3, from being brought into the realm. 4 BI. Comm. 98; Crabb, Eng. Law, 176. 3, repealed by 26 & 27 Vict. c. 125. —Statute merchant. See STATUTE.
in 1344; next follows a knight banneret; then come knights of the Bath, instituted by Henry IV., and revived by George I.; and they were so called from a ceremony of bathing the night before their creation. The last order are knights bachelors, who, ...
old English law. The shedding of blood; the mulct, fine, wite, or penalty imposed for the shedding of blood, which the king granted to many lords of manors. Cowell; Tomlins. See BLoopwIirt.
(Lat. He has chosen.) This is the name, in English practice, of a writ of execution first given by the statute of
tiff has obtained judgment of appraisement, but by reason of some act of the garnishee the goods cannot be appraised, (as where he has removed them from the city, or has sold them, etc.,) the serjeant-at-mace returns that the garnishee has eloigned t...
EMBASSAGE, or EMBASSY. The mesgage or commission given by a sovereign or state to a minister, called an “ambassador,” empowered to treat or communicate with another sovereign or state; also the establishment of an ambassador.
directed by the constitution and the laws of the state, whenever the public interest requires it. Beekman v. Saratoga & S. R. Co., 3 Paige (N. X.) 45, 73, 22 Am. Dec. 679.
identify it as an act of legislation proceeding from the proper legislative authority. Various formulas are used for this clause, such as “Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in general assembly,” “Be it enacted by ...
in mining law, the end lines of a claim, as platted or laid down on the ground, are those which mark its boundaries on the shorter dimension, where it crosses the vein, while the “side lines” are those which mark its longer dimension, where it fo...
14 Car. II. c. 10. consisting of two shillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and was abolished by 1 W. & M. St. 1, c. 10. This tax was otherwise called “chimney money.”
etc.—Navy department. One of the executive departments
wards that end. When used in the formér sense, as in statutes conferring a right to compel the military service of enlisted men, the enlistment is not deemed completed until the man has been mustered into the service. Tyler v. Pomeroy, 8 Allen (Mass...
Fr. To make subject to a service or servitude. Britt. c. 54.
EPISCOPAOCY. The office of overlook- ‘ing or overseeing; the office of a bishop, who is to overlook and oversee the concerns of the church. A form of church government by diocesan bishops. Trustees of Diocese of Central New York v. Colgrove, 4 Hun ...
worth, value, amount, or rights. People v.
the duty imposed being that of accompanying the king to the wars for forty days, at the tenant’s own charge, or sending a substitute. In later times, this service was commuted for a certain payment in money, which was then called “escuage certain...
meant a right or power to do some act, together with an interest in the subject-matter on which the power is to be exercised. It is distinguished from a naked power, which is a mere authority to act, not accompanied by any intereat of the donee in th...
the people,” etc, “do ordain and establish this constitution.” 1 Story, Const. § 454. And see Dickey v. Turnpike Co., 7 Dana (Ky.) 125; Ware v. U. S., 4 Wall. 682, 18 L:
ERNAMIUM. A writ that lay for taking cattle of one who has conveyed the cattle of another out of the county, so that the sheriff cannot replevy them. Reg. Orig. 82.
AM BARON. A writ of the same nature as that last above described, issued by the guardian of the crown's ward, and addressed to the sheriffs or stewards of the court, forbidding them to distrain him, etc., for not doing suit of court, etc. New Nat. Br...
kingdom, once in seven years, holding courts in specified places for the trial of certain