Category: D

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

In old European law. A profession of irreconcilable hatred till a person is revenged even by the death of his enemy.

In Scotch law. A deed made by a person while laboring under a distemper of which he afterwards died. Ersk. Inst. .”., 8, 90. A deed is understood to be in death-bed,

In the civil and old English law. A debtor.

The ten commandments given by God to Moses. The Jews called them the “Ten Words,” hence the name.

It behoves, Indeed, the prince to keep the laws by which he himself Is preserved.

A declaration made by an alien, as a preliminary to naturalization, before a court of record, to the effect that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the

In English practice. The plea of sanctuary, or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction. 2 Hale, P. C. 236; 4 Bl. Comm. 333. Now abolished. 4 Steph. Comm. 400, note;

One entered in a court of equity in favor of the complainant where the defendant has made no answer to the bill and its allegations are consequently taken “as confessed.” Ohio Cent.

Gratian’s decree, or deeretum. A collection of ecclesiastical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being the oldest as well as

A sealed instrument, containing a contract or covenant, delivered by the party to be bound thereby, and accepted by the party to whom the contract or covenant runs.A writing containing a contract