Category: D

A weak foundation frustrates [or renders vain] the work [built upon it.] Shep. Touch. CO; Noy, Max. 5, max. 12; Finch. Law, b. 1, ch. 3. When the foundation fails, all goes

A debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record, as by a judgment or recognizance. 2 Bl. Comm. 405.

A tithing, composed of ten neighboring families. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 13; 1 Bl. Comm. 114.

In the civil law. Where one of the parties to a suit, not being able to prove his charge, offered to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of his

One enacted for the purpose of removing doubts or putting an end to conflicting decisions in regard to what the law is in relation to a particular matter. It may either be

One entered in a probate court, declaring the estate in question to be insolvent, that is. that the assets are not sufficient to pay the debts in full. Rush v. Coleman, 121

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

The act of yielding up anything; surrender.

The fourth letter of the English alphabet. It is used as an abbreviation for a number of words, the more important and usual of which are as follows: 1. Digestuin, or Digcsta,

A certain measure of land; such narrow slips of pasture as are left between the plowed furrows in arable land. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. Damage; the loss or diminution of what is a man’s own, either by fraud, carelessness, or accident. In pleading and old English law. Damage ; loss.

To give away in fee, or forever.

The wife of one’s son.

Of admeasurement Thus, de admensuratione dotis was a writ for the admeasurement of dower, and de admensuratione pastures was a writ for the admeasurement of pasture.

(Lat For proroguing assise.) A writ to put off an assise, issuing to the justices, where one of the parties is engaged in the service of the king.

Of the goods of the testator, or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual property of his

Of close broken ; of breach of close. See CLAUSUM FREOIT.

Writ for delivering the copy of a libel. An ancient writ directed to the judge of a spiritual court, commanding him to deliver to a defendant a copy of the libel filed

Of or founded upon fraud. Dig. 4, 3. See ACTIO DF. DOLO MALO.

Writ for retaking an excommunicated person, where he had been liberated from prison without making satisfaction to the church, or giving security for that purpose. Reg. Orig. G7.