Category: D

Lat. A delict, tort, wrong, injury, or offense. Actions ex dclicto are suchas are founded on a tort, as distinguished from actions on contract.Culpability, blameworthiness, or legal delinquency. The word occurs iu

In Spanish law. The petition of a plaintiff, setting forth his demand. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 10, 1. 3.

In some universities and colleges this term is synonymous with “scholars.”

In pleading. The formal mode of disputing the sufficiency in law of the pleading of the other side. In effect it is an allegation that, even if the facts as stated in

An act or thing is “denounced” when the law declares it a crime andprescribes a punishment for it. State v. De Hart, 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605. The wordis also used

In practice. One who deposes (that is, testifies or makes oath In Writing) to the truth of certain facts; one who gives under oath testimony which is reduced to writing; one who

To defame; vilify; exhibit contempt for. In England it Is a criminal offenseto “deprave” the Lord’s supper or the Book of Common Prayer. Steph. Crim. Dig. 99.

Descent; in the descent See FOBMEDON.

Hopeless; worthless. This term is used In Inventories and schedules ofassets, particularly by executors, etc., to describe debts or claims which are consideredimpossible or hopeless of collection. See Schultz v. Pulver, 11

A term used in old English law, generally in connection with waste,and having, according to some, the same meaning. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 385; 3 Bl.Comm. 223. Britton, however, makes a distinction

The removal of property from one state to another upon a transfer of the title to it by will or inheritance. Frederickson v. Louisiana, 23 How. 445, 16 L. Ed. 577.

A testamentary disposition of land or realty; a gift of real property by the last will and testament of the donor. Scholle v. Scholle, 113 N. Y. 201, 21 N. E. 84;Ferebee

A logical reasoning in a progressive manner, proceeding from one subject to another. Enc. Lond.

A day given in the bench, (or court of common pleas.) Bract, fols. 2576, 301. A day given in bank, as distinguished from a day at nisi prius. Co. Litt. 135.

Juridical days; useful or available days. A term of the Roman law,used to designate those especial days occurring within the limits of a prescribed periodof time upon which it was lawful, or

A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the incumbentsuffers any edifices of his ecclesiastical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by

In Spanish law. Money. Dincro contado, money counted. White, NewRecop. b. 2. tit. 13, c. 1,

1. The act of governing; management; superintendence. Also the bodyof persons (called “directors”) who are charged with the management and administrationof a corporation or institution.2. The charge or instruction given by the

To repudiate the unauthorized acts of an agent; to deny the authority bywhich he assumed to act.

Not married; not subject to the disabilities of a coverture. It applies equally to a maid and a widow.