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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.

In pleading. An action of replevin is said to be in the detinuit when the plaintiff acquires possession of the propertyclaimed by means of the writ. The right to retain Is, of

Capable of being devised. 1 Pow. Dev. 105; 2 Bl. Comm. 373.

A rhetorical figure in which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. Enc. Lond.

(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.