Category: D

In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.

In the civil law. An accusation or information.

In the Roman and civil law. A wrong or Injury: an offense; a violation of public or private duty. It will be observed that this word, taken in its most general sense,

v. In practice. To claim as one’s due; to require; to ask relief. To summon; to call in court. “Although solemnly demanded, comes not, but makes default.”

In old records. A half or moiety.

In maritime law. The sum which is fixed by the contract of carriage, or which is allowed, as remuneration to the owner of a ship for the detention of his vessel beyond

In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creationof a fief, containing a description of the flef, and all the rights and Incidents belonging to It. Guyot, Inst.

In Scotch practice. To depose ; to make oath In writing.

In French law. The depositum of the Roman and the deposit of the Englishlaw. It is of two kinds, being either (1) d(p6t simply so called, and which may be eithervoluntary or

One who Is descended from another; a person who proceeds from the body of another, such as a child, grandchild, etc., to the remotest degree. The terms the opposite of “ascendant,” (?.

Official communications of official persons on the affairs of government.

As used in policies of Insurance, leases, and in maritime law, this term Isoften applied to an act which renders the subject useless for its intended purpose,though it does not literally demolish

To be torn In pieces by horses. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 37.

In practice. The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery, or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validity of a paper

Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatiseon the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others toRichard Fitz Nigel, bishop of London in the reign of

The day begins ; dies venit, the day has come.Two expressions in Roman law which signify the vesting or fixing of an interest, and the interest becoming a present one. Sandars’ Just.

In old English law. A solar day, as distinguished from what was called “dieslunaris,” (a lunar day;) both composing an artificial day. Bract, fol. 264. See DAY.

Judicial decision or determination

A government of two persons.

One which is absolute and unconditional as to the time, amount, and thepersons by whom and to whom it is to be made. People v. Boy- Ian (C. C.) 25 Fed. 595.See