Category: D

The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. See DETAINER.

They have wasted. A term applied in old English law to waste byexecutors and administrators, and to the process issued against them therefor. Cowell.See DEVASTAVIT.

L. Fr. Dies; deceases. Bend- loe, 5.

A magistrate invested with unlimited power, and created in times of nationaldistress and peril. Among the Romans, he continued in office for six months only,and had unlimited power and authority over both

In old English practice. A day of grace, courtesy, or favor. Co. Litt 1346. The quarto die post was sometimes so called. Id. 135a.

For the meaning of the phrase “difficult and extraordinary case,” asused in New York statutes and practice, see Standard Trust Co. v. New York, etc., R.Co., 178 N. Y. 407, 70 N.

In old English law. Pottage formerly made for the king’s table on thecoronation day. There was a tenure in serjeantry, by which lands were held of the kingby the service of finding

In the civil law. A royal charter; letters patent granted by a prince orsovereign. Calvin.An instrument given by colleges and societies on the conferring of any degrees.State v. Gregory, 83 Mo. 130,

In its ordinary sense, to disable is to cause a disability, (q. v.). In the old language of pleading, to disable is to take advantage of one’s own or another’s disability. Thus,

The opposite of charge; hence to release ; liberate; annul; unburden; disincumber.In the law of contracts. To cancel or unloose the obligation of a contract; to makean agreement or contract null and

In construing a policy of life insurance, it is generally true that before anytemporary ailment can be called a “disease,” it must be such as to Indicate a vice in theconstitution, or

A statement in a pleading or indictment which expresses or charges a thing alternatively, with the conjunction “or;” for instance, an averment that defendant “murdered or caused to be murdered,” etc., would

In old English law. An injury by union or comparison with someperson or thing of inferior rank or excellence.Marriage without disparagement was marriage to one of suitable rank and character.2 Bl. Comm.

Ouster; a wrong that carries with it the amotion of possession. Anact whereby the wrong-doer gets the actual occupation of the land or hereditament. Itincludes abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, deforcement. 3 Bl.

Lat In the civil law. The mutual agreement of the parties to a simplecontract obligation that it shall be dissolved or annulled; technically, an undoing of theconsensus which created the obligation. Mackeld.

He who seizes a distress.

A territory situated on the Potomac river, and being theseat of government of the United States. It was originally ten miles square, and wascomposed of portions of Maryland and Virginia ceded by

In criminal pleading. A plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, allegingthat he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is immediately impaneledto try the collateral issue

The legal separation of man and wife, effected, for cause, by the judgment of a court, and either totally dissolving the marriage relation, or suspending its effects so far as concerns the

A learned man ; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in ascience or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in hisart or faculty, as, a