Category: D

In its use in Jurisprudence, this word is the correlative of right. Thus,wherever there exists a right in any person, there also rests a corresponding duty upon some other person or upon

One who makes default. One who misappropriates money held by him in an official or fiduciary character, or fails toaccount for such money.

(Fr.) To deny; to defend; to conduct a suit for a defendant; to forbid; to prevent; to protect.

In English law. Annuities for the life of the purchaser, but notcommencing until a date subsequent to the date of buying them, so that, if thepurchaser die before that date, the purchase

L. Lat. In old English law. A distress, distraint, or seizure of goods for satisfaction of a lawful debt. Cowell.

L. Fr. In old English practice. Of well being; of form. The same as de bene esse. Britt. c. 39.

To weigh, ponder, discuss. To examiue, to consult, in order to form an opinion.

An order addressed, in England, by the owner of goods to a person holding themon his behalf, requesting him to deliver them to a person named iu the order. Deliveryorders are chiefly

Pertaining to a demesne.

In Scotch law. A dooms- man. One who pronounced the sentence of court. 1 How. State Tr. 937.

In English law. A person who, being an alien born, has obtained, exdonatione regis, letters patent to make him an English subject,

One which depends or is conditional upon another. One which itis not the duty of the contractor to perform until some obligation contained in the sameagreement has been performed by the other

One who makes a deposit.

The partial repeal or abolishing of a law, as by a subsequent actwhich limits its scope or impairs its utility and force. Distinguished from abrogation,which means the entire repeal and annulment of

A term used in the Spanish law, denoting the act by which the boundaries of an estate or portion of a country are determined.

In French law. When a person is declared bankrupt, he isImmediately deprived of the enjoyment and administration of all his property; this deprivation,which extends to all his rights, is called “dessaisissement.” Arg.

In practice. A form of action which lies for the recovery, in specie, ofpersonal chattels from one who acquired possession of them lawfully, but retains itwithout right, together with damages for the

An Invention or contrivance; any result of desigu; as iu the phrase”gambling device,” which means a machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing ofan unlawful game of chance or hazard.

A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient’s illnessor the determination of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms.Said to be little more than

(Lat. He has closed his last day,