Category: D

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.

Concerning the conflict of laws. The title of several works written on that subject 2 Kent, Comm. 455.

A writ of debt Reg. Orig. 139.

Writ for having estovers. A writ which lay for a wife divorced

In French law. A clause commonly inserted in policies of marine insurance, equivalent to a license to touch and trade at intermediate ports. American Ins. Co. v. Griswold, 14 Wend. (N. Y.)

(Lat. For taking a man in withernam.) A writ to take a man who had carried away a bondman or bondwoman into another country beyond the reach of a writ of replevin.

L. Fr. 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.

“Concerning merchants.” The name of a statute passed in the eleventh year of Edw. I. (1233.) more commonly called the “Statute of Acton Bur- nel,” authorizing the recognizance by statute merchant. See

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 tlie land

Of the present; in the present tense. See PER VERBA DE I’R.ESENTI.

A writ by which one tenant in common seeks to compel another to aid in repairing the property held in common. 8 Barn. & C. 209.

Of showing the tablets of a will. Dig. 43, 5.

A writ that lay where a man had a day in any action to appear in proper person, and the king at that day. or before, employed him in some service, so

A dealer, in the popular, and therefore in the statutory, sense of the word, is not one who buys to keep, or makes to sell, but one who buys to sell again.

There ought to be an end of suits; there should be some period put to litigation. Jenk. Cent. 61.

L. Lat. Debt without writ; debt without a declaration. In old practice, this term denoted an action begun by original bill, instead of by writ. In modern usage, it is sometimes applied

A deceased person; one who has lately died. Etymologically the word denotes a person who is dying, but it has come to be used in law as signifying any defunct person, (testate

Dal. 50. Tithes belong to the parson by divine right and canonical institution.

In Scotch law. An action whereby it Is sought to have some right of property, or of status, or other right judicially ascertained and declared. Bell.