Category: D

Writ of redisseisin. A writ which lay where a man recovered by assise of novel disseisin land, rent, or common, and the like, and was put in possession thereof by verdict, and

Writ of surcharge of pasture. A judicial writ which lay for him who was impleaded in the county court, for surcharging a common with his cattle, In a case where he was

Writ of warranty of charter. A writ which lay for him who was enfeoffed, with clause of warranty. [in the charter of feoffment,] and was afterwards impleaded In an assise or other

To traffic; to transact business; to trade. Makers of an accommodation note are deemed dealers with whoever discounts it. Vernon v. Manhattan Co., 17 Wend. (N. Y.) 524.

A Stock or fund representing money borrowed bv a company or public body, it) England, and charged on the whole or part of its property.

A debt or obligation complete when contracted, but of which the performance cannot be required till some future period.

n. Death; departure from life, not including civil death, (see DEATH.) In re Zeph’s Estate, 50 Ilun, 523, 3 N. Y. Supp. 400.

Tithes are not to be paid from that which is given for tithes.

Statements made by a person who is lying at the point of death, and is conscious of his approaching dissolution, in reference to the manner in which he received the injuries of

A letter prepared and mailed for the purpose of detecting a criminal, particularly one who is perpetrating frauds upon the postal or revenue laws. U. S. v. Whittier,5 Dill. 30, Fed. Cas.

A sentence of the court of sessions, (who are now iu the place of the commissioners for the valuation of teinds,) determining the extent and value of teinds. Bell.

I have given and granted. The operative words of conveyance in ancient charters of feoffment, and deeds of gift and grant; the English “given and granted” being still the most proper, though

Lat. (Will you give? I will give.) In the Roman law. One of the forms of making a verbal stipulation. Inst. 3, 15, 1; Bract, fol. 156.

Additional damages claimed by a plaintiff not satisfied with those paid into court by the defendant.

In old English law. A money payment made by forest-tenants, that they might have liberty to plow and sow in time of pannage, or mast feeding.

In the civil law. A giving, or act of giving. Datio in solutum; a giving in payment; a species of accord and satisfaction. Called, in modern law, “dation.”

A dairy. Cowell.

For a yearly rent. A writ to recover an annuity, no matter how payable, in goods or money. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258.

Concerning men twice married. The title of the statute 4 Edw. I. St 3; so called from the initial words of the fifth chapter. 2 Inst. 272; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 142.

Writ of champerty. A writ directed to the justices of the bench, commanding the enforcement of the statute of cliampcrtors. Reg. Orig. 183; Fitzh. Nat.Brev. 172.