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It is difficult to give an exact definition of “habitancy.” In general] terms, one may be designated as an “inhabitant” of that place which constitutes the principal seat of his residence, of his business, pursuits, connections, attachments, ...
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 said to have “departed in despi...
DEPOSE. Im practice. In ancient usage, to testify as a witness; to give evidence under oath.
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 may authorize another as subde...
MARRIAGE. A writ formerly available to a wife after a divorce, for the recovery of the goods given with her in marriage. Mozley & Whitley.
execution of the judgment appealed from.
Lat. Aday; days. Days for ap- ared in court, and
(or Dil.). Dillon’s United States Circuit Court Reports.
DIPTYCHA. Diptychs; tablets of wood, metal, or other substance, used among the Romans for the purpose of writing, and folded like a book of two leaves. The diptychs of antiquity were especially employed for public registers. They were used in the Gre...
lat. A distress; a distraint. Cowell. DISTRINGAS. In English practice. A
course or process. 1 W. Bl 89; 4 Kent,
and the petition of the creditor, and their object was to obtain from the ford chancellor his fiat, authorizing the petitioner to prosecute his complaint against the bankrupt in the bankruptcy courts. Brown.
220, 51 Am. Rep. 519; Rountree v. Pursell, 11 Ind. App. 522, 389 N. BE 747; Adams v. Akerlund, 168 IH. 632, 48 N. B. 454.
(Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) in matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors in a court of a manor in ancient demesne, who are judges there. Blount; Whishaw; Termes de ia Ley. :
Lat. The master of the suit; 4. e., the person who was really and directly interested in the suit as a party, as distinguished from his attorney or advocate. But the term is also applied to one who, though not originally a party, has made himself suc...
(or Dowl. P. CO. 3: . Dowling’s English Bail Court (Practice) Cases.
8. Dowling’s New Series, English Practice Cases.
1.042.—Maritime nroft. A term used by French writers to signify any profit derived from a maritime loan.—Mari-« time service. In admiralty law. A _ service rendered upon the high seas or a navigable river, and which has some relation to commerce...
(Lat. Bring with you.) The name of certain species of writs, of which the sybpena duces tecum is the most usual, requiring a party who is summoned to
DUBITAVIT. Doubted. Vaughan, C. J. dubitavit, Freem. 150. 1. Just; proper; regular; lawful ; sufficient; as in the phrases “due care,” “due process of law,” “due notice.” A person where he is the party owing it, or primarily bound to pa...
trial by twelve men, or by jury. Applied to juries de medietate lingua. Mol. de Jure Mar, 448.
33.—Common place. Common pleas. The English court of common pleas is sometimes 80 called in the old books.--Common prayer. The liturgy, or public form of
80, 41L. R.A. 344. 911. 180. A dormant judgment is one which has not been satisfied nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which has remained so long upnexecuted that execution cannot now be issued upon it without first reviving the judgment. Drape...
485, 54 S. W. 498.—Regular term. A regular term of court is a term begun at the time appointed by law, and continued, in the discretion of the court, to such time as it may appoint, consistent with the: law:
EN JUIOCIO. Span. Judicially; in a court of law; in a suit at law. White, New
L. Fr. To write down in short; to abbreviate, or, in old language, émbreviate; to put into a schedule. Britt. e 1. .
ENFORCE. To put into execution; to cause to take effect; to make effective; as, to énforce a writ, a judgment, or the collection of a debt or fine. Breitenbach v.
lish law. A proceeding in the court of exchequer in matters of revenue. .
2, c. 53.—Curia Christianitatis. The ecclesias-. tical court.—Ouria comitatus. The county court, (g. v.}—-Curia cursus aque. A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats. plying on the river T...
398; Dickey v. Leonard, 77 Ga. 151; Hagar v. Reclamation Dist., 111 U. 8. 701, 4 Sup. Ct. 663, 28 L. Ed. 569; Appeal