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In old English law. A park or place fenced in for deer, and defended as a property and peculiar for that use and service. Cowell.

One blood being wanting, he cannot be heir. But see 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 100,

In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.

In the civil law. An accusation or information.

In the Roman and civil law. A wrong or Injury: an offense; a violation of public or private duty. It will be observed that this word, taken in its most general sense,

v. In practice. To claim as one’s due; to require; to ask relief. To summon; to call in court. “Although solemnly demanded, comes not, but makes default.”

Half-blood.

To present a demurrer; to take an exception to the sufficiency in point of law of a pleading or state of facts alleged. See DEMURRER.

In French law. Earnest money; a sum of money given in token ofthe completion of a bargain. The phrase is a translation of the Latin Denarius Dei, (q. v.)

1. One of the territorial divisions of a country. The term is chieflyused in this sense in France, where the division of the country into departments Issomewhat analogous, both territorially and for

Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights. A punishment derived from the deportatio (q.v.) of the Roman law, and still in use in France.In

In English ecclesiastical law. The taking away from a clergyman hisbenefice or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either by sentence declaratory in theproper court for fit and sufficient causes or in pursuance

One who Is descended from another; a person who proceeds from the body of another, such as a child, grandchild, etc., to the remotest degree. The terms the opposite of “ascendant,” (?.

In maritime law. Persons appointed to settle cases of average.

A “destitute person” is one who has no money or other property availablefor Ills maintenance or support. Nor- ridgewock v. Solon, 49 Me. 385; Woods v.Perkins, 43 La. Ann. 347, 9 South.

Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. 1 Reeves, Eng. Law, 159.In

In insurance. Varying from the risks insured against, as described inthe policy, without necessity or just cause, after the risk has begun. 1 Phil. Ins.

The office of a deacon.

Lat In Roman law. This name was given to a notice promulgated by amagistrate of his intention to present an impeachment against a citizen before the people,specifying the day appointed, the name

In old English law. The day of meetin of English and Scotch, which was annually held on the marches or borders to adjusttheir differences and preserve peace.