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In old English law. A species of waste by which the population ofthe kingdom was diminished. Depopulation of houses was a public offense. 12 Coke,30, 3L

To appoint a deputy; to appoint or commission one to act as deputy toan officer. In a general sense, the term is descriptive of empowering one person to actfor another in any

The devolving of realty upon the heir on the death of his ancestor intestate.

Contempt. See DESPITE. A contemptible person. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 5.

To seize or take into custody another’s goods or person.

Lat In the Roman law. A division of the as, containing eleven uncice or duodecimal parts; theproportion of eleven-twelfths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. See As.Dens solns heeredem faoere potest, non homo.

Fr. Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Rich. II. c. 3, in the sense of duties or customs.

In old English law. A tally for accounts, by number of cuts, (taillecs,) marks,or notches. Cowell. See TALLIA, TAT.I.Y.

The Lord’s day; Sunday.

In Scotch law. The days within which parties in civil and criminal prosecutions are cited to appear. Bell.

A class of defenses at common law, founded on some matter of fact not connected with themerits of the case, but such as might exist without impeaching the right of action itself.They

Diptychs; tablets of wood, metal, or other substance, used among theRomans for the purpose of writing, and folded like a book of two leaves. The diptychsof antiquity were especially employed for public

A provision in a statute, rule of procedure, or the like, is said to bedirectory when it is to be considered as a mere direction or instruction of no obligatoryforce, and Involving

Money expended by an executor, guardian, trustee, etc., for thebenefit of the estate in his hands, or in connection with its administration.The term is also used under the codes of civil procedure,

A difference between two things which ought to be identical, asbetween one writing and another; a variance, (

To exhume, unbury, take out of the grave. People v. Baumgartner, 135 Cal. 72, 00 1’ac. 974.

In old English law. To bring together those that are unequal,(dispares confcrre;) to connect in an indecorous and unworthy manner; to connect inmarriage those that are unequal in blood and parentage.

These are alternative or synonymous phrases in the law of wills for “sound mind,” and “testamentary capacity,” (q. v.)

Dispossession; a deprivation of possession; a privation of seisin; ausurpation of the right of seisin and possession, and an exercise of such powers andprivileges of ownership as to keep out or displace

The sale at retail of the property of an insolvent estate, under themanagement of a curator appointed in the interest of the creditors, and for the purposeof realizing as much as possible