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The chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventhpart of a Roman ounce. Also an English penny. The denarius was first coined five yearsbefore the first Punic war,

(L. Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God.) In English law. Anypersonal chattel which was the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonablecreature, and which was forfeited to

Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights. A punishment derived from the deportatio (q.v.) of the Roman law, and still in use in France.In

A steward of a manor may depute or authorize another to hold a court; aud tlie actsdone in a court so holden will be as legal as if the court had been

1. A delineation or account of a particular subject by the recital of itscharacteristic accidents and qualities.2. A written enumeration of items composing an estate, or of its condition, or oftitles or

This word involves, in its signification, violence or clandestine means bywhich one is deprived of that which he possesses. Its Spanish equivalent, dcspojar, is aterm used In Mexican law. Sunol v. Hepburn,

This term Is used In policies of marine insurance, in the clauserelating to “arrests, restraints, and detainments.” The last two words are construed asequivalents, each meaning the effect of superior force operating

An offender without sureties or pledges. Cowell.

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