Category: D

In the civil law. A defender; one who assumed the defense of another’scase in court. Also an advocate. A tutor or curator.In canon law. The advocate or patron of a church. An

In English law. To withhold wrongfully; to withhold the possession of lands from one who is lawfully entitled to them. 3 Bl. Comm. 172; Phelps v. Baldwin, 17 Conn. 212.In Scotch law.

L. Fr. Out of; without; beyond ; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 3 Bl. Comm. 387.

In French marine law. A discharging of ballast (Inst) from a vessel.

In Spanish law. Crime; a crime, offense, or delict. White, New. Recop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 1, j 4.

Domain ; dominical; held in one’s own right, and not of a superior; not allotted to tenants. In the language of pleading, own; proper; original. Thus, .’ton assault demesne, his own assault,

The disuse of a particular metal for purposes of coinage. The withdrawal of the value of a metal as mouey.

L. Fr. In old English law. Denial; refusal. Denier is when the rent (being demanded upon the land) is not paid Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 5.

1. One of the territorial divisions of a country. The term is chieflyused in this sense in France, where the division of the country into departments Issomewhat analogous, both territorially and for

The party receiving a deposit; one with whom anything is lodged intrust, as “depository” is the place where it is put. The obligation on the part of thedepositary is that he keep

Forsaken ; abandoned; deserted ; cast away.Personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner in such manner as to indicatethat he intends to make no further claim thereto. 2 Bl. Comm.

In Spanish law. Dishonor; injury; slander. Las Partidas, pt. 7, tit. 9, I. 1, 6.

This word, in its original and most simple acceptation, signifies master andsupreme lord; it is synonymous with monarch ; but taken in bad part, as it is usuallyemployed, it signifies a tyrant

is where a juvenile offender is sentenced to be sent to a reformatory school, to be there detained fora certain period of time. 1 Russ. Crimes, 82.

Lat He has wasted. The act of an executor or administrator in wastingthe goods of the deceased; mismanagement of the estate by which a loss occurs ; abreach of trust or misappropriation

Lat In Roman law. A division of the as, consisting of ten unciw; tentwelfths, or five-sixths. 2 Bl. Comm. 402, note m.

In general. A statement, remark, or observation. Oralis dictum; a gratuitousor voluntary representation; one which a party is not bound to make. 2 Kent,Comm. 480. Simplex dictum; a mere assertion ; an

In Roman law. Divided days; davs on which the courts were open for a part of the day. Calvin.

Second marriage; marriage to a second wife after the death ofthe first, as “bigamy,” in law, is having two wives at once. Originally, a man whomarried a widow, or married again after

Half; a half; the half.