Category: D

Debt and contract are of [belong to] no place; have no particular locality. The obligation in these cases is purely personal, and actions to enforce It may be brought anywhere. 2 lust.

The act of beheading. A mode of capital punishment by cutting off the head.

Tithes are due to the parish priest.

A public and formal proclamation by a nation, through its executive or legislative department, that a state of war exists between itself and another nation, and forbidding all persons to aid or

To inveigle, entice, tempt, or lure; as, to decoy a person within the jurisdiction of a court so that he may be served with process, or to decoy a fugitive criminal to

One where the decision is in favor of the plaintiff. Ersk. Inst. 4, 3, 5.

(Lat. I have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of conveyance when such instruments were made in Latin, and anciently held to imply a warranty of title. Deakius v.

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.”

In English law. A permission granted to a prisoner to go out of prison, for the purpose of transacting his business, as to hear a case in which he Is concerned at

Breve. Writ of annual pension. An ancient writ by which the king, having a yearly pension due him out of an abbey or priory for any of his chaplains, demanded the same

L. Fr. Of the goods of the deceased. Dyer, 32.

A writ for certifying. A writ directed to the sheriff, requiring him to certify to a particular fact Reg. Orig. 24.

By the advice (or direction) of the court.

Breve. L. Lat. Writ of ward, or writ of right of ward. A writ which lay for a guardian in knight’s service or in socage, to recover the possession and custody of

A writ which issued upon an essoin of malum lecti being cast, to examine whether the party was in fact sick or not. Reg. Orig. 86.

One which has purported to pass the property from the owner to another. Bank v. IjOgan, 74 N. Y. 575; Edmunds v. Transp. Co., 135 Mass. 283.

A writ for respiting or postponing homage. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 209, A.