Category: D

The house In which a man lives with his family; a residence ;the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence.In conveyancing. Includes all

To prevent, frustrate, or circumvent; as in the phrase “hinder, delay, or defeat creditors.” Coleman v. Walker, 3 Mete. (Ivy.) 05. 77 Am. Dec. 103; Walker v.Sayers, 5 Rush (Ivy.) 581.To overcome

The act of lending money on usury.

To debauch, deflower, or corrupt the chastity of a woman. The term doesnot necessarily imply force or ravishment, nor does it connote previous immaculateness.State v. Montgomery, 79 Iowa, 737. 45 N. W.

Deceased; a deceased person. A common term in Scotch law.

In old English law. The reward of an informer. Whishaw.

To mark or lay out the limits or boundary line of a territory or country.

The plaintiff or party suing in a real action. Co. Litt. 127.

In the civil law. A taking away; loss or deprivation. See CAPITIS DEMINUTIO.

This name is sometimes given to a ruling on an objection to evidence, but is notproperly a demurrer at all. Mandelort v. Land Co., 104 Wis. 423. 80 N. W. 720

(Otherwise called “burn-beating.”) A method of improvingland by casting parings of earth, turf, and stubble into heaps, which when dried areburned into ashes for a compost. Cowell.

In old Scotch practice. A deponent 3 How. State Tr. 695.

In French law. Pillage, waste, or spoliation of goods, particularly ofthe estate of a decedent

Capable of passing by descent, or of being inherited or transmittedby devise, (spoken of estates, titles, offices, and other property.) Collins r. Smith, 105Ga. 525, 31 S. E. 449.

A hopeless debt; an irrecoverable obligation.

To weary a person with continual barkings, and then to bite; spoken of dogs. Leg Alured. 26, cited in Cunningham’s Diet

Any loss or harm suffered in person or property; e. g

The person to whom lands or other real property are devised or given by will. 1 Pow. Dev. c. 7.

Daily food, or as much as will suffice for the day. Du Cange

A day given to the parties to an action; an adjournment or continuance. Crabb, Eng. Law. 217.