Category: D

Pertaining to a demesne.

In Scotch law. A dooms- man. One who pronounced the sentence of court. 1 How. State Tr. 937.

In English law. A person who, being an alien born, has obtained, exdonatione regis, letters patent to make him an English subject,

One which depends or is conditional upon another. One which itis not the duty of the contractor to perform until some obligation contained in the sameagreement has been performed by the other

One who makes a deposit.

The partial repeal or abolishing of a law, as by a subsequent actwhich limits its scope or impairs its utility and force. Distinguished from abrogation,which means the entire repeal and annulment of

A term used in the Spanish law, denoting the act by which the boundaries of an estate or portion of a country are determined.

In French law. When a person is declared bankrupt, he isImmediately deprived of the enjoyment and administration of all his property; this deprivation,which extends to all his rights, is called “dessaisissement.” Arg.

In practice. A form of action which lies for the recovery, in specie, ofpersonal chattels from one who acquired possession of them lawfully, but retains itwithout right, together with damages for the

An Invention or contrivance; any result of desigu; as iu the phrase”gambling device,” which means a machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing ofan unlawful game of chance or hazard.

A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient’s illnessor the determination of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms.Said to be little more than

(Lat. He has closed his last day,

In Roman law. Days on which the courts were closed, and it was unlawful to administer justice; answering to the dies nonjuridioi of the English law. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

Has been held as synonymous with “excavating,” and not confined to theremoval of earth. Sherman v. New York, 1 N. Y. 316.

In old conveyancing. [He] has demised. See DIMISI.

A direct attack on a judgment or decree is an attempt, for sufficient cause, to have it annulled, reversed, vacated, corrected, declared void, or enjoined, in a proceeding instituted for that specific

To restore to their former condition lands which have been turnedinto forests. To remove from the operation of the forest laws. 2 Bl. Comm. 416.

The termination or suspension of an estate- tail, in consequence of the act of the tenant in tail, in conveying a larger estate in the land than he was by law entitled

Ignominy; shame; dishonor. No witness is required to disgrace himself. 13 How. State Tr. 17, 334.

A dismissal entered in accordance with the agreement of theparties, amounting to an adjudication of I he matters in dispute between them or to arenunciation by the complainant of the claims asserted