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That which finally and completely ends and settles a controversy. A definitive sentence or judgment is put inopposition to an Interlocutory judgment.A distinction may be taken between a final and a definitive

A term for waste in the French law.

A person who is delegated or commissioned to act in the stead of another; a person to whom affairs are committed by another; an attorney.A person elected or appointed to be a

In medical jurisprudence. Delirium is that state of the mind in which it acts without being directed by the power of volition, which is wholly or partially suspended.This happens most perfectly in

One whose mental faculties are enfeebled; one who has lost his mind; distinguishable from amens, one totally insane.

Lat I have demised or leased. Demisi, eoneessi, et ad flnnam tradidi; havedemised, granted, and to farm let. The usual operative words in ancient leases, as thecorresponding English words are in the

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.