DOUBLE
Twofold; acting in two capacities or having two aspects; multiplied by two.This term has ordinarily the same meaning in law as in popular speech. The principal compound terms into which it enters
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Twofold; acting in two capacities or having two aspects; multiplied by two.This term has ordinarily the same meaning in law as in popular speech. The principal compound terms into which it enters
Letters-patent. Cowell.
In old English law. Endowment; dower. Grogan v. Garrison, 27 Ohio St. 61.
A person to whom a bill of exchange is addressed, and who is requested to pay the amount of money therein mentioned.
Sax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made by some tenants tothe king, or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.Cowell; Blount.
The common law. Litt.
See EXCIIANCE
Those lands which formerly belonged to the dukes ofLancaster, and now belong to the crown in right of the duchy. The duchy is distinctfrom the county palatine of Lancaster, and Includes not
Lat While; as long as; until; upon condition that; provided that.
The trial by twelve men, or by jury. Applied to juries de medietate Ungues. Mol. de Jure Mar. 448.
During widowhood. 2 lil. Comm. 124. Durante casta viduitate, during chaste widowhood. 10 East, 020.
In Roman law. A leader or military commander. The commander of an army.Dig. 3, 2, 2, pr.In feudal and old European law. Duke; a title of honor, or order of nobility. 1
An instrument which defeats the force or operation of some otherdeed or estate. That which is in the same deed is called a “condition;” and that which isin another deed is a
To offer duel or combat as a legal trial and appeal. Abolished by 59 Geo. III.
A lack, shortage, or insufficiency. The difference between the totalamount of the debt or payment meant to be secured by a mortgage and that realizedon foreclosure and sale when less than the
The punishment of being buried alive.
In French marine law. Abandonment Emerig. Tr. des Ass. ch. 17.
The act or process of deliberating. The act of weighing and examiningthe reasons for and against a contemplated act or course of conduct or achoice of acts or means. See DELIBERATE.
In medical jurisprudence. An insane delusion is an unreasoning and incorrigiblebelief in the existence of facts which are either impossible absolutely, or, atleast, impossible under the circumstances of the individual. It is
French. Half; the half. Used chiefly in composition. As to demi “Mark,” “Official,” “Vill,” see those titles.