Category: D

In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to theconveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, howeverclear may be the meaning of the party. Paters.

In old Scotch law. Disseisin ; dispossession. Skene.

The strict meaning of “distillery” is a place orbuilding where alcoholic liquors are distilled or manufactured ; not every building wherethe process of distillation is used. Atlantic Dock Co. v. Lihbv, 45

The jury are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears tothem to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are cases inwhich

Interruption of the peace, quiet, and good order of a neighborhood or community, particularly by unnecessary anddistracting noises. City of St. Charles v. Meyer, 58 Mo. 89; Yokum v. State (Tex. Cr.

As distinguished from those of human origin, divine laws are those ofwhich the authorship is ascribed to God, being either positive or revealed laws or thelaws of nature. Mayer v. Probe, 40

Lat I give that you may do; I give [you] that you may do or make[for me.] A formula in the civil law, under which those contracts were classed in whichone party

In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender againstvenison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a houndled in his hand; or

Fraud (or deceit) giving rise to the contract; that is, a fraudulent misrepresentation made by one of the parties to thecontract, and relied upon by the other, and which was actually instrumental

In Spanish law. The acquisition of domiciliary rights and status,nearly equivalent to naturalization, which may be accomplished by being born in thekingdom, by conversion to the Catholic faith there, by taking up

Full ownership; the union of the dominium directum with the dominium utile. Tayl. Civil Law, 478.

A gift made by a person in sickness, who, apprehending his dissolution near, delivers, or causes to be delivered, to another the possession of any personal goods, to keep as his own

See PARTNERS.

In Scotch law. Double the ordinary or single value of a marriage. Bell. See DUPLEX VALOR MARI- TADLL.

One as to the validity of which there exists some doubt, either asto matter of fact or of law; one which invites or exposes the party holding it tolitigation. Distinguished from a

The property which a woman brings to her husband In marriage; now more commonly called a “portion.”By dowry is meant the effects which the wife brings to the husband to support the

In patent law. A representation of the appearance of material objects by means of lines and marks upon paper, cardboard, or other substance. Ampt v.Cincinnati, 8 Ohio Dec. 62S.

That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. It is equivalent to the Roman “spccificatio.”

Rights or perquisites of the admiralty. A term applied to goodsfound derelict at sea. Ap- lied also to property captured in time of war y noncommissionedvessels of a belligerent nation. 1 Kent,

In Scotch law. Corn paid to the owner of a mill, whether the payers grind or not.