Category: D

In the law of Louisiana, one which does not suspend the execution of the judgment appealed from. State v. Allen, 51 La. Ann. 1842, 20 South. 434.

To order or instruct what is to be said or written. To pronounce, word byword, what is meant to be written by another. Hamilton v. Hamilton, 6 Mart. (N. S.) (La.) 143.

In Roman law. Days on which the courts were open, and justice could be legallyadministered ; days on which it was lawful for the pnetor to pronounce (fari) the threewords, “do,” “dico,”

To destroy; to disfigure or deface.

Such a measure of prudence, activity, or assiduity, as is properly to be expected from, and ordinarily  exercised by, a reasonable and prudent man under the particular circumstances; not measured by any

The district over which a bishop exercised his spiritual functions.

In canon law. Absolute bars to marriage, which would make It null ab initio.

In old European law. To discharge or unload, as a wagon. Spelman.

Such as are not marked out on fixed lines, but allow acertain amount of discretion in their exercise. Those which cannot be duly administeredwithout the application of a certain degree of prudence

One who has no interest in the cause or matter in issue, and who is lawfully competent to testify. Jonesv. Larrabee, 47 Me. 474 ; Warren v. Baxter. 48 Me. 195; Appeal

L. Fr. Disparagement ; the matching an heir, etc., in marriage,under his or her degree or condition, or against the rules of decency. Kelham.

Such as produce or bring about the origination, transfer, orextinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comesinto existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or

One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully

To sell; to draw apart; to dissolve a contract; to divorce. Calvin.

Ecclesiastical divisions of parishes in England, forall purposes of worship, and for the celebration of marriages, christenings, church- ings.and burials, formed at the instance of the queen’s commissioners for building newchurches. See

A turning aside or altering the natural course of a thing. The term ischiefly applied to the unauthorized changing the course of a water-course to the prejudiceof a lower proprietor. Merritt v.

In English law. One of the smaller subdivisions of a county. Used in Lincolnshire as synonymous with “riding” in Yorkshire.

v. To abstract and enter in a book. 3 Bl. Comm. 397, 398. To make a briefentry of any proceeding in a court of justice in the docket

A base coin of small value, prohibited by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1. Westill retain the phrase, In the common saying, when we would undervalue a man, thathe is not worth

(Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now remainingin the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal size, containing minuteand accurate surveys of the lands