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In the civil law. An accusation or information.

In the Roman and civil law. A wrong or Injury: an offense; a violation of public or private duty. It will be observed that this word, taken in its most general sense,

v. In practice. To claim as one’s due; to require; to ask relief. To summon; to call in court. “Although solemnly demanded, comes not, but makes default.”

In old records. A half or moiety.

In maritime law. The sum which is fixed by the contract of carriage, or which is allowed, as remuneration to the owner of a ship for the detention of his vessel beyond

In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creationof a fief, containing a description of the flef, and all the rights and Incidents belonging to It. Guyot, Inst.

In Scotch practice. To depose ; to make oath In writing.

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.