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A mountain or high open place. The names of places ending in dun or donwere either built on hills or near them in open places.

Double right Bract, fol. 2836. See DBOIT-DROIT.

A term used in Hindostan for a passport, permit, or order from tlieEnglish East Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exemptinggoods from the payment of duties. Euc. Lond.

In Scotch law. A bankrupt.

To set off one claim against another; to deduct a debt due to one from adebt which one owes. Johnson v. Signal Co., 57 N. J. Eq. 79, 40 Atl. 193 ;

Failure of the blood, i. e., failure or want of issue.

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.