Category: D

A charge for the transportation of property in wheeled vehicles, such asdrays, wagons, and carts. Soule v. San Francisco Gaslight Co., 54 Cal. 242.

The right of a stockbroker to sell the securities bought by him for account of a client, if the latter doesnot accept delivery thereof. The same expression is also applied to the

These were at first high ships of great burden, but afterwards those which we nowcall “men-of-war.” Jacob.

A passive trust; one which requires no action on the partof the trustee beyond turning over money or property to the cestui que trust. Bradfordv. Robinson, 7 Houst. (Del.) 29, 30 Atl.

1. Just; proper; regular; lawful; sufficient; as in the phrases “due care,” “due process of law,” “due notice.”2. Owing; payable; justly owed. That which one contracts to pay or perform to another;

(While he was within age.) In old English practice. A writ of entry whichformerly lay for an infant after he had attained his full age. to recover lands which hehad aliened in

In the civil law. Double the price of a thing. Dig. 21, 2, 2.

v. To subject to duress. A word used by Lord Bacon. “If tlie party duresscd do make any motion,” etc. Bac. Max. 89, reg. 22.

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The want or absence of some legal requisite; deficiency; Imperfection ; insufficiency.Hauey-Campbell Co. v. Creamery Ass’n, 119 Iowa, 188, 93 N. W. 297; Bliven v. Sioux City, 85 Iowa, 346, 52 N.

In old English law. A park or place fenced in for deer, and defended as a property and peculiar for that use and service. Cowell.

To explain or state the exact meaning of words and phrases; to settle,make clear, establish boundaries. U. S. v. Smith, 5 Wheat. 100, 5 L. Ed. 57; Walters v.Richardson, 93 Ky. 374,

Lat. Dead. “Defunctus sine prole,” dead without (leaving) issue.

To retard; obstruct; put off; hinder; interpose obstacles; as, when it is saidthat a conveyance was made to “hinder and delay creditors.” Mercantile Co. v. Arnold,108 Ga. 449. 34 S. E. 176;

The act of lixilig, marking off, or describing the limits or boundary line of a territory or country.

A female demandant

v. In conveyancing. To convey or create an estate for years or life; tolease. The usual and operative word in leases: “Have granted, demised, and to farm let,and by these presents do

Half-blood. A corruption of demi-sang

The act of present payment.

In old English law. The crime of destroying, ravaging, or laying waste a country. 2 Hale, P. C.333; 4 Bl. Comm. 373.