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If a bishop refuse or neglect to examine or admit a patron’s clerk,without reason assigned or notice given, he is styled a “disturber” by the law, and shaUnot have any title to

Divine service was the name of a feudal tenure, by which thetenants were obliged to do some special divine services in certain; as to sing so manymasses, to distribute such a sum

In medical jurisprudence. The hydrostatic test used chieflyin cases of alleged infanticide to determine whether the child was born alive or dead,which consists in immersion of the foetal lungs in water. If

The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system.

Incapable of criminal intention or malice; not of the age of discretion; not possessed of sufficient discretion and intelligence to distinguish between right and wrong to the extent of being criminally responsible

Lat. Domicile, (q. v.)

In the civil law. Equitable or pnetorian ownership; that which was founded on equity. Mackeld.Rom. Law,

A gift on account of marriage. In Romanlaw, the bridegroom’s gift to the bride in antipication of marriage and to secure her doswas called “donatio ante nuptias;” but by an ordinance of

Lat. The back. In dorso recordi, on the back of the record. 5 Coke, 446.

In Scotch law. A bond with a penalty, as distinguished from a single bond. 2 Ivames, Eq. 359.

L. Fr. A gift. Otherwise written “don” and “done.” The thirty-fourth chapter of Britton is entitled “De Douns.”

L. Fr. Twelve; a person twelve years of age. St. 18 Edw. II.; Barring. Ob. St. 20S.

Thieves; robbers. Cowell.

A rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, wasconfiscated to the use of the state, to the exclusion of his heirs, whether claiming abtntcs- tato

What belongs of right; relating to right; as real actions are eitherdroitural or possessory,

Rent- seek ; a rent reserved without a clause of distress.

In French law. Guaranty ; equivalent to del credere, (which see.)

In English law. A writ which lay for a man who had aliened lands under duress by imprisonment, to restore tohim his proper estates. 2 Inst. 482. Abolished by St. 3 &

A dozen hands, i. e., twelve witnesses to purge a criminal of an offense.Duorum in solidum dominium vel pos- ?essio esse non potest. Ownership or possessionin entirety cannot be in two persons

In India. A court, audience, or levee. Mozley & Whitley.