Category: D

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

A naked bailment of goods to be kept for the depositor without reward,and to be returned when he shall require it .Tones, Bailm. 30, 117; National Bank v.Washington County Bank, 5 Hun

In Spanish law. Law or right. Derecho eomun, common law. The civil lawis so called. A right. Derechos, rights. Also, specifically, an impost laid upon goods orprovisions, or upon persons or lands,

The act by which a person abandons and forsakes, without justification,or unauthorized, a station or condition of public or social life, renouncing its responsibilities and evading its duties.In matrimonial and divorce law.

In Spanish law. Espousals ; mutual promises of future marriage. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 6, c. 1,

The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. See DETAINER.

They have wasted. A term applied in old English law to waste byexecutors and administrators, and to the process issued against them therefor. Cowell.See DEVASTAVIT.

L. Fr. Dies; deceases. Bend- loe, 5.

A magistrate invested with unlimited power, and created in times of nationaldistress and peril. Among the Romans, he continued in office for six months only,and had unlimited power and authority over both

In old English practice. A day of grace, courtesy, or favor. Co. Litt 1346. The quarto die post was sometimes so called. Id. 135a.

For the meaning of the phrase “difficult and extraordinary case,” asused in New York statutes and practice, see Standard Trust Co. v. New York, etc., R.Co., 178 N. Y. 407, 70 N.

In old English law. Pottage formerly made for the king’s table on thecoronation day. There was a tenure in serjeantry, by which lands were held of the kingby the service of finding

In the civil law. A royal charter; letters patent granted by a prince orsovereign. Calvin.An instrument given by colleges and societies on the conferring of any degrees.State v. Gregory, 83 Mo. 130,