Category: D

To scandalize or disparage. Blount

In maritime law. To deprive a seaman or petty officer of his “rating” or rank; to reduce to a lower rate or rank.

In criminal law. To advise and procure a person not to do an act.To dissuade a witness from giving evidence against a person indicted is an indictable offense at common law. Hawk.

In practice. The apportionment and division, under authority of acourt, of the remainder of the estate of an intestate, after payment of the debts andcharges, among those who are legally entitled to

The doing any act by which the right of another to his commonis incommoded or diminished; as where one who has no right of common puts hiscattle into the land, or where

A fund to be divided. The share allotted to each of several persons entitledto share in a division of profits or property. Thus, dividend may denote a fund setapart by a corporation

Lat I give, I bequeath; or I give and bequeath. The formal words ofmaking a bequest or legacy, in the Roman law. Titio et Seio hominem Stichum do, lego,I give and bequeath

In Saxon law. The actual perpetrator of a homicide.

In the civil law. Guile; de- ceitfulness; malicious fraud. A fraudulent addressor trick used to deceive some one; a fraud. Dig. 4, 3, 1. Any subtle contrivance bywords or acts with a

Pertaining to domicile; relating to one’s domicile. Existing or created at, or connected with, the domicile of a suitor or of a decedent.

The complete and absolute dominion in property; the union of the title and the exclusive use. Fairfax v. Hunter, 7 Cranch, 003.3 L. Ed. 453.

An inofficious (undu- tiful) gift; a gift of so great a part of thedonor’s property that the birthright portion of his heirs is diminished. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

One which a creditor delivers to the sheriff with directions to levy only, and not to sell, until further orders, or until a junior execution is received.

Twofold; acting in two capacities or having two aspects; multiplied by two.This term has ordinarily the same meaning in law as in popular speech. The principal compound terms into which it enters

Letters-patent. Cowell.

In old English law. Endowment; dower. Grogan v. Garrison, 27 Ohio St. 61.

A person to whom a bill of exchange is addressed, and who is requested to pay the amount of money therein mentioned.

Sax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made by some tenants tothe king, or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.Cowell; Blount.

The common law. Litt.

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