Category: D

Those lands which formerly belonged to the dukes ofLancaster, and now belong to the crown in right of the duchy. The duchy is distinctfrom the county palatine of Lancaster, and Includes not

Lat While; as long as; until; upon condition that; provided that.

The trial by twelve men, or by jury. Applied to juries de medietate Ungues. Mol. de Jure Mar. 448.

During widowhood. 2 lil. Comm. 124. Durante casta viduitate, during chaste widowhood. 10 East, 020.

In Roman law. A leader or military commander. The commander of an army.Dig. 3, 2, 2, pr.In feudal and old European law. Duke; a title of honor, or order of nobility. 1

Subject .to be defeated, annulled, revoked, or undone upon the happeningof a future event or the performance of a condition subsequent, or by a conditionallimitation. Usually spoken of estates and interests in

To wage law; a denial of an accusation upou oath. See WAGEU OF LAW.

In parliamentary practice, an appropriation bill covering items of expenseomitted from the general appropriation bill or bills, or for which insufficientappropriations were made. If intended to cover a variety of such items,

To practice fraud; to cheat or trick; to deprive a person of property orany interest, estate, or right by fraud, deceit, or artifice. People v. Wiman, 148 N. Y. 29,42 N. E.

In Scotch law. To accuse. Delated, accused. Dclatit off arte and parte, accused of being accessary to. 3 How. St Tr. 425, 440.

A luxurious debtor Is odious in law. 2 Bulst. 148. Imprisonment for debt has now, however, been generally abolished.

An abbreviation for “demise;” e. g

Half-blood.

One who demurs; the party who, in pleading, interposes a demurrer.

An English statute, for the amendment of procedure incriminal trials, (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18,) allowing counsel to sum up the evidence in criminalas in civil trials, provided the prisoner be

In Spanish-American law. Spaces of ground In towns reserved for commonsor public pasturage. 12 Pet 443, note, 9 L. Ed. 1150.

Lat. In the civil law. One of the forms of the contract of bailment,being a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the use of the bailor without reward.Foster v. Essex

In Mexican law. The dcsamortizacion of property is to take itout of mortmain, (dead hands;) that is, to unloose It from the grasp, as it were, ofecclesiastical or civil corporations. The term

In maritime law. Persons appointed to settle cases of average.

A “destitute person” is one who has no money or other property availablefor Ills maintenance or support. Nor- ridgewock v. Solon, 49 Me. 385; Woods v.Perkins, 43 La. Ann. 347, 9 South.