DE COMBUSTIONE DOMORUM. Of
house burning. One of the kinds of appeal formerly in use in England. Bract. fol. 1460; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 88.
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DE CONJUNCTIM FEOFFATIS. Oon
cerning persons jointly enfeoffed, or seised. The title of the statute 84 Edw. I., which was passed to prevent the delay occasioned by tenants in novel disseisin, and other writs, pleading that some one else was seised jointly with them. 2 Reeve, Eng...
DE CORONATORE ELIGENDO. Writ
for electing a coroner. A writ issued to the sheriff in England, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner, which is done in full county court, the freeholders being the electors. Sewell, Sheriffs, 372.
DE CORONATORE EXONERANDO
Writ for discharging or removing a coroner. A writ by which a coroner in England may be removed from office for some cause therein assigned. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 163, 164; 1
DE CUJUS
Lat. From whom. A term used to designate the person by, through, from, or under whom another claims. Brent vy. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1008, 6 South. 793.
DE DEBITORE IN PARTES
in pieces.” This was the name of a law contained in the Twelve Tables, the meaning of which has occasioned much controversy. Some commentators have concluded that it was literally the privilege of the creditors of an insolvent debtor (all other mea...
DE DEONERANDA PRO RATA POR
TIONIS. A writ that lay where one was distrained for rent that ought to be paid by others proportionably with him. YFitzh.
DE DIVERSIS REGULIS JURIS AN
TIQUI. Of divers rules of the ancient law. A celebrated title of the Digests, and the last in that collection. It consists of two hundred and eleven rules or maxims,
DE HS QUI PONENDI SUNT IN A&s
SISIS. Of those who are to be put on assises. The title of a statute passed 21 Edw. I. defining the qualifications of jurors. Crabb, Eng. Law, 167, 189; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 184.
DE LA PLUIS BEALE, or BELLE
L. Vr. Of the most fair. <A term applied to a species of dower, which was assigned out of the fairest of the husband’s tenements. Litt. § 48. This was abolished with the military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 182; 1
DE LEGATIS ET FIDEI COMMISSIS
Of legacies and trusts. The name of a title of the Pandects. Dig. 30.
DE LIBERTATIBUS ALLOCANDIS
A writ of various forms, to enable a citizen to recover the liberties to which he was entitled. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 229; Reg. Orig. 262.
DE LICENTIA TRANSFRETANDI
Writ of permission to cross the sea. An old writ directed to the wardens of the port of Dover, or other seaport in England, commanding them to permit the persons named in the writ to cross the sea from such port, on certain conditions. Reg. Orig. 193...
DE ONERANDO PRO RATA POR
TIONE. Writ for charging according to a rateable proportion. A writ which lay for a joint tenant, or tenant in common, who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land came to. Reg. Orig. 182; Fitzh.
DE PRZAEROGATIVA REGIS. The
statute 17 Edw. I., St. 1, c 9, defining the prerogatives of the crown on certain subjects, but especially directing that the king shall have ward of the lands of idiots, taking the profits without waste, and finding them necessaries. 2 Steph. Comm. ...
DE QUARANTINA HABENDA. At
common law, a writ which a widow entitled to quarantine might sue out in case the heir or other persons ejected her. It seems to have been & summary process, and required the sheriff, if no just cause were shown against it, speedily to put her into p...
DE RATIONABILIBUS DIVISIS
was ogain disseised by the former disseisor. Writ for fixing reasonable boundaries. <A writ which lay to settle the boundaries between the lands of persons in different towns, where one complained of encroachment. Reg. Orig. 1570; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. ...
DE REBUS
DE REBUS. Of things. The title of the third part of the Digests or Pandects, comprising books 12-19, inclusive.
DE RECTO DE ADVOCATIONE. Writ
of right of advowson. Reg. Orig. 290. A writ which lay for one who had an estate in an advowson to him and his heirs in feesimple, if he were disturbed to present. Fitzh.
DE REOTO DE RATIONABILI PAR
TE. Writ of right, of reasonable part. A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind, or between sisters or other coparceners for lands in feesimple, where one was deprived of his or her share by another. Reg. Orig. 30; ...
DE REPARATIONE FACIENDA. A
writ by which one tenant in common seeks to compel another to aid in repairing the property held in‘common. 8 Barn. & C. 269.
DE VERBORUM SIGNIFICATIONE
Of the signification of words. An important. title of the Digests or Pandects, (Dig. 50, 16,): consisting entirely of definitions of words and phrases used in the Roman law. oe
DE. PARTITIONE FACIENDA
DE PARTITIONE FACIENDA. A writ which lay to make partition of lands or tene-
DEACON
lands; calling upon the tenant to appear and show cause why he committed waste and destruction in the place named, to the disinherison (ad exheredationem) of the plaintiff. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 55, C; 3 BI.
DEAD BODY
to assist the priest in divine service and the distribution of the sacrament. It is the lowest order in the Churecb of England.
DECEM TALES
(Ten such; or ten tales, jurors.) In practice. The name of a writ which issues in England, where, on a trial at bar, ten jurors are necessary to make up a full panel, commanding the sheriff to summon the requisite number. 3 Bl. Comm 864; Reg. Jud. 30...
DECENNARIUS
Lat. One who held one-half a virgate of land. Du Cange. One of the ten freeholders in a decennary. I4.; Calvin. Decennier. One of the decennarii, or ten freeholders making up a tithing. Spelman.
DECLARATION
by way of authoritative answer to the questions raised before it. Adams v. Railroad 4, 1776, by the congress of the United States of America, in the name and behalf of the people of the colonies, asserting and proclaiming their independence of the B...
DECREMENTUM MARIS
Lat. Inold English law. Decrease of the sea; the receding of the sea from the land. Callis, Sewers, (53,) 65. See RELICTION.
DECRETALES GREGORII NONI. The
decretals of Gregory the Ninth. A _ collection of the laws of the church, published by order of Gregory IX. in 1227. It is composed of five books, subdivided into titles, and each title is divided into chapters. They are cited by using an X, (or cxtr...