Category: D

Lat. By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a king orqueen, importing a claim of sovereignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancienttimes it

In Scotch law. To erase; to strike out.

In practice. The verdict rendered by a jury.

A man is said to be seised in his demesne as of fee of a corporeal inheritance, because he has a property,dominicum or demesne, in the thing itself. But when he has

Lat. Description; addition; denomination. Occurring often in the phrase, “Falsa demonstratio non nocct,” (a false description does not harm.)

In French law. Earnest money; a sum of money given in token ofthe completion of a bargain. The phrase is a translation of the Latin Denarius Dei, (q. v.)

In maritime law. A deviation from the course prescribed in the policy of insurance.In pleading. The statement of matter in a replication, rejoinder, or subsequentpleading, as a cause of action or defense,

In Scotch law. Deposit or depositum, the species of bailment so called. Bell.

The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the seashrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of alluvion, (q. v.) Dyer, 3206;2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm.

In the law of evidence. Purpose or intention, combined with plan, or implyinga plan in the mind. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 331; State v. Grant, 80 Iowa, 210, 53 N. W.120; Ernest v.

That abuse of government where the sovereign power is not divided, hutunited in the hands of a single man, whatever may be his official title. It is not,properly, a form of government.

The decision of a court of justice. Shirley v. Birch, 16 Or. 1, 18Pac. 344; Henavie v. Railroad Co., 154 N. Y. 278, 48 N. E. 525. The ending or expirationof an

A writ, now obsolete, directed to the king’s escheators when any ofthe king’s tenants in capite dies, and when his son and heir dies within age and in theking’s custody, commanding the

To shake hands in token of friendship; or to give up oneself to the power of another person.

The edict or declaration of Kenilworth. An edict or awardbetween King Henry III. and all the barons and others who had been in arms againsthim; and so called because it was made

A lawful day for the transaction of judicial or court business; a day on which the courts are ormav be open for the transaction of business. Didsbury v. Van Tassell, 56 Hun,

A collection or compilation, embodying the chief matter of numerous booksin one, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement,for facility in reference.As a legal term, “digest” is

The moiety or half of a thing

The science of diplomas, or of ancient writings and documents; theart of judging of ancient charters, public documents, diplomas, etc., and discriminatingthe true from the false. Webster.

To deny a thing.