Category: D

Concerning gifts, (or more fully, de donis coiulitionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The name of a celebrated English statute, passed in the thirteenth year of Edw. I., and constituting the first chapter of

Writ for making execution in withernam. Reg. Orig. 826. A species of capias in withernam.

Writ of forfeiture of marriage. Reg. Orig. 163, 104.

Of [his own] wrong. In the technical language of pleading, a replication de injuria is one that may be made iu an action of tort where the defendant has admitted the acts

The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, directing him to Inquire by good and lawful men whether the party charged is a lunatic or not.

A writ forbidding the justices from holding an assise in a particular case. Reg. Orig. 221.

In the civil law. An action to recover a pledge stolen. Inst. 4, 1, 14.

Of things. The title of the third part of the Digests or Tandects, comprising books 12-19, inclusive.

For behaving himself well; for his good behavior Yelv. 90, 154.

A deed de una parte Is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds himself to do a thing to another. It differs from a deed inter partes, (q. v.) 2

A future use.

A special guard set to watch a prisoner condemned to death, for some days before the time for the execution, the special purpose being to prevent any escape or any attempt to

L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb. Eng. Law, 107.

The statute 32 & 33 Vict. c. 62, abolishing imprisonment for debt in England, and for the punishment of fraudulent debtors. 2 Steph. Comm. 159-164. Not to be confounded with the Bankruptcy

In Scotch law. To decree. “Decernit and ordainit.” 1 IIow. State Tr. 927. “Decerns.” Shaw, 16.

In pleading. The first of the pleadings on the part of the plaintiff in an action at law, being a formal and methodical specification of the facts and circumstances constituting his cause

In Scotch law. A plea to the Jurisdiction, on the ground that the judge Is interested in the suit.

One entered in a suit for the annuilment of a marriage, and adjudging the marriage to have been null and void ab initio. See NUIXITY.

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign, in relation to ecclesiastical matters. Schm. Civil Law, 93, note.

By “deduction” is understood a portion or thing which an heir has a right to take from the mass of the succession before any partition takes place. Civil Code La. art. 1358.