Category: D

A general legislative assembly is sometimes so called on the continent of Europe.In Scotch practice. The sitting of a court An appearance day. A day fixed for the trialof a criminal cause.

Tending or intended to cause delay or to gain time or to put off a decision.

Belonging to a diocese; a bishop, as he stands related to his own clergy or flock.

An officer having the control, management, andsuperintendence of the United States mint and its branches. He is appointed by thepresident, by and with the advice and consent of the senate.

In England, to deprive a barrister permanently of the privileges of hisposition; it is analogous to striking an attorney off the rolls. In America, the word describesthe act of a court in

In a general sense, the ascertainment of that which was previously unknown; the disclosure or coming to light of what was previously hidden; the acquisition of notice or knowledge of given acts

In the civil law. The act of depriving a forced heir of the inheritancewhich the law gives him.

In criminal law. Ahouse the inmates of which behave so badly as to become a nuisance to the neighborhood.It has a wide meaning, and includes bawdy houses, common gaming houses,and places of

To alienate or direct the ownership of property, as disposition by will.Used also of the determination of suits. Called a word of large extent. Koerner v.Wilkinson, 96 Mo. App. 510, 70 S.

To dispossess; to deprive.

A term used In the statutes of Illinois (Rev. Laws. 111. 1833,p. 332) and New Hampshire (Dig. X. II. Laws, 1S30, p. 339) to express a state ofinsanity. Snyder v. Snyder, 142

The share or portion which a given heir receives on the legal distribution of an intestate estate, People v. Beckwith,10 N. Y. St. Itep. 97; Page v. Rives, 18 Fed. Cas. 992.

The words “ditch” aud “drain” have no technical or exact meaning. Theyboth may mean a hollow space in the ground, natural or artificial, where water iscollected or passes ofE. Goldthwait v. East

In old English law. A device, award, or decree; also a devise; also boundsor limits of division of a parish or farm, etc. Cowell. Also a court held ou the boundary,in order

v. To curtail or diminish, as to dock an entail.

In maritime law. A light ship or vessel; dogger-fish, fish brought in ships. Cowell.

An abbreviation of Do- mus I’roccrum or Domo Procerum; the house oflords in England. Sometimes expressed by the letters D. P.

A title given to honorable women, who anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony. Cowell.

Lat. The owner being willing; with the consent of the owner.

In ecclesiastical law. A mode of acquiring a benefice by deed of gift alone, without presentation, institution, orinduction. 3 Steph. Comm. Si.In general. A gift. See DONATIO.