Category: D

A view or examination of what cattle are in a forest, chase, etc..that it may be known whether it be surcharged or not; and whose the beasts are. andwhether they are commonable.

In old French law. A charge payable to the crown by any one who, after having served his apprenticeship inany commercial guild or brotherhood, sought to become a master workman in it

A free pass given by a railroad company, accepting a droveof cattle for transportation, to the drover who accompanies and cares for the cattle onthe train. Railroad Co. v. Tanner, 100 Va.

Doubting. Is affixed to the name of a judge, in the reports, to signifythat he doubted the decision rendered.

A brief written acknowledgment of a debt. It is not made payable to order, like a promissory note. See Feeser v. Feeser, 03 Md. 716, 50 Atl. 400; Marrigan v. Page, 4

Provided; provided that. A word of limitation In the Latin forms ofconveyances, of frequent use in introducing a reservation; as in reserving a rent

In the civil law. The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication ;corresponding to the rejoinder of the common law.Duplicationem possibilitatis lex non patitnr. The law does not allow the doubling of apossibility.

In old English law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows. Blount.

.A state of the stomach In which its functions are disturbed, without thepresence of other diseases, or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minorimportance. Dungl. Med. Diet

Engines or great nets made of cord to catch deer. 19 Hen. VIII. c. 11.

Lat. Defect; default; want; imperfection; disqualification.

That part of any open field or place that was allotted for corn or hay, andupon which there was no common or feeding, was anciently said to be in defenso; so ofany

Seduction or debauching. The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity.

In the law of descent and family relations. A step or grade, i. e., thedistance, or number of removes, which separates two persons who are related byconsanguinity. Thus we speak of cousins

A sending away; a putting into commission; the assignment of a debtto another: the intrusting another with a general power to act for the good of thosewho depute him. At common law.

A disorder of the nervous system, involving the brain and setting up an attack of temporary delusional insanity, sometimes attended with violent excitement or mania, caused by excessive and long continued indulgence

L. Fr. From this time forward. Kelhain.

That form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens; as distinguished from a monarchy,aristocracy, or oligarchy. According to the theory

A traverse in the pleading of one party of an allegation of fact set up by theother; a’ defense. See Flack v. O’Brien, 19 Misc. Rep. 399, 43 N. T. Supp. 854;

In pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a formerpleading, and assume a new one. See DEPARTURE.In maritime law. To leave a port; to be out of a port. To