Category: D

An abbreviation for “District Judge.”

Doing damage. A term applied to a person’s cattle or beasts found upon another’s land, doing damage by treading down the grass, grain, etc. 3 Bl. Comm. 7, 211; Tomlins. This phrase

Anciently the better sort of men In England had this title; so the Spanish Don. The old term of honor for men, as we now say Master or Mister. Wharton.

In old English law. The last presentment. See ASSISE OF DARREIN PRESENTMENT

(L. Lat. dies in banco.) In practice. Certain stated days in term appointed for the appearance of parties, the return of process, etc.. originally peculiar to the court of common pleas, or

For proving age. A writ which formerly lay to summon a jury in order to determine the age of the heir of a tenant in capite who claimed his estate as being

A writ to replevy beasts. 3 Bl. Comm. 140.

Writ for repairing a causeway. An old writ by which the sheriff was commanded to distrain the Inhabitants of a place to repair and maintain a causeway, etc. Reg. Orig. 154.

See CLERICO INFRA SACROS, etc.

Lat From whom. A term used to designate the person by, through, from, or under whom another claims. Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793.

A writ which lay at the suit of the tenant for years against the lessor, reversioner, remainderman, or stranger who had himself deprived the tenant of the occupation of the land during

Writ of exemplification. A writ granted for the exemplification of an original. Reg. Orig. 2006.

Of theft. One of the kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law. 40.

A writ of intrusion; where a stranger entered after the death of the tenant, to the injury of the reversioner. Reg. Orig. 233b.

Of Illness. This phrase was frequently used to designate several species of essoin, (q. v.,) such as dc malo lecti, of illness in bed; de malo vcnicndi. of illness (or misfortune) in

In the civil law. A form of interdict or injunction which lies in some cases where the defendant is about to erect a “new work” (q. v.) in derogation or injury of

Of a plea ; of or iu an action. Formal words used in declarations and other proceedings, as descriptive of the particular action brought.

Writ to send the record and process of a cause to a superior court; a species of writ of error. Reg. Orig. 209.

From like things to like things we are to proceed by the same rule or reason, [i. e., we are allowed to argue from the analogy of cases.] Branch, Princ.

Writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in reversion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or