Category: D

Writ of right patent. Reg. Orig. 1.

The writ of statute staple. Reg. Orig. 151.

From the neighborhood, or vicinage. 3 Bl. Comm. 300. A term applied to a jury.

In old English law. To discharge from being forest. To free from forest laws.

A certificate given by the collector of a port, under the United States customs laws, to the effect that an importer of merchandise therein named is entitled to a drawback,

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.