Category: D

(The day from which.) In the civil law. The day from which a transactionbegins; the commencement of it: the conclusion being the dies ad quem. Mackeld.Rom. Law,

In practice. A day not juridical; not a court day. A day on which courts are not open for business, such as Sundays and someholidays. Havens v. Stiles, 8 Idaho, 250, 67

In English law. An honor; a title, station, or distinction of honor. Dignitiesare a species of incorporeal hereditaments, in which a person may have a property orestate. 2 Bl. Comm. 37; 1

Where a candidate for holy orders has a title of ordination inone diocese in England, and is to be ordained in another, the bishop of the formerdiocese gives letters dimissory to the

Property is said to descend or be inherited in the direct line when it passes in linealsuccession: from ancestor to son, grandson, great-grandson, and so on.

To disable a person.

L. Fr. Improper; unfit Kelham

Disinheritance; depriving one of an inheritance. Obsolete. See Abernetliy v. Orton, 42 Or. 437, 71 Pac. 327, 95 Am. St. Rep. 774.

Turbulent or riotous behavior ; immoral or indecent conduct. The breach of the public decorum and morality.

This term, as used in shipping articles, means “disrate,” and does notimport authority of the master to discharge a second mate, notwithstanding a usage inthe whaling trade never to disrate an officer

To justify; to clear one’s self of a fault; to traverse an indictment; to disprove. Enc. Lond.

A term which includes all potable alcoholic liquors obtained by the process of distillation,(such as whisky, brandy, rum. and gin) but excludes fermented and malt liquors, suchas wine and beer. U. S.

Exercising or accomplishing distribution; apportioning, dividing, and assigning in separate items or shares.

The hindrance or obstruction of a patron from presenting his clerk to a benefice. 3 Bl. Comm. 242; 3Steph. Comm. 514.

Eat To diviue; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio, aconjecturing or guessing.Divinatio, non interpretatio est, quae oninino recedit a litera. That is guessing, notinterpretation, which altogether departs from the letter. Bac.

Lat. I give that you may give; I give [you] that you may give [me.] A formula in the civil law, constituting a general division under which those contracts(termed “innominate”) were classed

In Scotch law. An agent or attorney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325.

In a wide sense, the Roman law distinguishes between”good,” or rather “permissible” dolus and “bad” or fraudulent dolus. The former isjustifiable or allowable deceit; it is that which a man may employ

To establish one’s domicile ; to take up one’s fixed residence in agiven place. To establish the domicile of another person whose legal residence follows one’s own.

Eminent domain