Category: D

In real property law. An appropriation of land to some public use,made by the owner, and accepted for such use by or on behalf of the public; a deliberate appropriation of land

The raised floor at the upper end of a hall.

In old English law. Condemned ; prohibited by law ; unlawful. Damnatus coitus, an unlawful connection.

In Spanish law. Damage; the deterioration, injury, or destruction which a man suffers with respect to his person or his property by the fault (culpa) of another. White, New Recop. b. 2,

A word derived from the Roman law, signifying “appointed by public authority.” Thus, in Scotland, an executor- dative is an executor appointed by a court of justice, corresponding to an English administrator.

An arbitrator, umpire, or elected judge. Cowell.

An old writ which lay to seize goods in the hands of a party during the pendency of a suit, to prevent their being made away with. Reg. Orig. 1206.

For goods taken away; for taking away goods. The action of trespass for taking personal property is technically called “trespass de bonis asportatis.” 1 Tidd, Pr. 5.

A writ for the enforcement of a right of way. Reg. Orig. 155.

Writs of cosiuage, (q. v.)

A writ of deceit which lay against one who acted in the name of another whereby the latter was damnified and deceived. Reg. Orig. 112.

L. Fr. Of water and whip of three cords. A term applied to a neife, that is, a bond woman or female villein, as employed in servile work, and subject to corporal

Of false money. The title of the statute 27 Edw. I. Ordaining that persons importing certain coins, called “pollards,” and “crokards,” should forfeit their lives and goods, and everything they could forfeit

A writ which lay for one arrested in a personal action and committed to prison under a mistake as to his identity, the proper defendant bearing the same name. Reg. Orig. 194.

Of legacies and trusts. The name of a title of the Pandects. Dig. 30.

Writ of threats. A writ which lay where a person was threatened with personal violence, or the destruction of his property, to compel the offender to keep the peace. Reg. Orig. 886,

Of peace, (breach of peace,) aud wounds. One of tlie kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England, and which lay in cases of assault, wounding, aud breach of the peace.

An ancient writ of entry.

For having a return; to have a return. A term applied to the judgment for the defendant in an action of replevin, awarding him a return of the goods replevied; and to

From time to time, and at all times. Townsh. PI. 17.