Category: D

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.

In Roman law. Dowry; a wife’s marriage portion; all that property which onmarriage is transferred by the wife herself or by another to the husband with a view ofdiminishing the burden which

In ecclesiastical law. A grievance made known by a clerk or other person, tothe archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for delaying or refusing to dojustice in some cause ecclesiastical, as

Doves are animals ferce natures, and not the subject of larceny unless theyare in the owner’s custody; as, for example, in a dove-house, or when in the nestbefore they can fly. Com.

Twelve peers assembled at the instance of the barons, In the reign of Henry III., to be privy counselors, or rather conservators of the kingdom.

A charge for the transportation of property in wheeled vehicles, such asdrays, wagons, and carts. Soule v. San Francisco Gaslight Co., 54 Cal. 242.

The right of a stockbroker to sell the securities bought by him for account of a client, if the latter doesnot accept delivery thereof. The same expression is also applied to the

These were at first high ships of great burden, but afterwards those which we nowcall “men-of-war.” Jacob.

A passive trust; one which requires no action on the partof the trustee beyond turning over money or property to the cestui que trust. Bradfordv. Robinson, 7 Houst. (Del.) 29, 30 Atl.

1. Just; proper; regular; lawful; sufficient; as in the phrases “due care,” “due process of law,” “due notice.”2. Owing; payable; justly owed. That which one contracts to pay or perform to another;

(While he was within age.) In old English practice. A writ of entry whichformerly lay for an infant after he had attained his full age. to recover lands which hehad aliened in

In the civil law. Double the price of a thing. Dig. 21, 2, 2.

v. To subject to duress. A word used by Lord Bacon. “If tlie party duresscd do make any motion,” etc. Bac. Max. 89, reg. 22.

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The want or absence of some legal requisite; deficiency; Imperfection ; insufficiency.Hauey-Campbell Co. v. Creamery Ass’n, 119 Iowa, 188, 93 N. W. 297; Bliven v. Sioux City, 85 Iowa, 346, 52 N.