Category: D

In French law. Pillage, waste, or spoliation of goods, particularly ofthe estate of a decedent

Capable of passing by descent, or of being inherited or transmittedby devise, (spoken of estates, titles, offices, and other property.) Collins r. Smith, 105Ga. 525, 31 S. E. 449.

A hopeless debt; an irrecoverable obligation.

To weary a person with continual barkings, and then to bite; spoken of dogs. Leg Alured. 26, cited in Cunningham’s Diet

Any loss or harm suffered in person or property; e. g

The person to whom lands or other real property are devised or given by will. 1 Pow. Dev. c. 7.

Daily food, or as much as will suffice for the day. Du Cange

A day given to the parties to an action; an adjournment or continuance. Crabb, Eng. Law. 217.

A general legislative assembly is sometimes so called on the continent of Europe.In Scotch practice. The sitting of a court An appearance day. A day fixed for the trialof a criminal cause.

Tending or intended to cause delay or to gain time or to put off a decision.

Belonging to a diocese; a bishop, as he stands related to his own clergy or flock.

An officer having the control, management, andsuperintendence of the United States mint and its branches. He is appointed by thepresident, by and with the advice and consent of the senate.

In England, to deprive a barrister permanently of the privileges of hisposition; it is analogous to striking an attorney off the rolls. In America, the word describesthe act of a court in

In a general sense, the ascertainment of that which was previously unknown; the disclosure or coming to light of what was previously hidden; the acquisition of notice or knowledge of given acts

In the civil law. The act of depriving a forced heir of the inheritancewhich the law gives him.

In criminal law. Ahouse the inmates of which behave so badly as to become a nuisance to the neighborhood.It has a wide meaning, and includes bawdy houses, common gaming houses,and places of

To alienate or direct the ownership of property, as disposition by will.Used also of the determination of suits. Called a word of large extent. Koerner v.Wilkinson, 96 Mo. App. 510, 70 S.

To dispossess; to deprive.

A term used In the statutes of Illinois (Rev. Laws. 111. 1833,p. 332) and New Hampshire (Dig. X. II. Laws, 1S30, p. 339) to express a state ofinsanity. Snyder v. Snyder, 142

The share or portion which a given heir receives on the legal distribution of an intestate estate, People v. Beckwith,10 N. Y. St. Itep. 97; Page v. Rives, 18 Fed. Cas. 992.