Category: D

Lat. In the civil law. A gift; a free gift Calvin. Distinguished from munus. Dig. 50, 16, 194.

n. In Spanish law. The marriage portion of a wife. White, New Recop. b. 1,tit. 6, c. 1. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account of marriage, orfor

In patent law. An application of a principle or process, previously known and applied, to some new use, but which does not lead to a new result or the production of a

A kind of dower in England, regulated by custom, where the quantity allowed the wife differed from theproportion of the common law; as that the wife should have half the husband’s lands;or,

v. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture byadapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them, when necessary,by artificial ditches. People v. Parks, 58 Cal.

This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but matters floating at random, without any known or discoverable ownership, which. If cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but

The right of a creditor to pursue the debtor’s property into the hands of third persons for the enforcement of his claim.

A thicket of wood in a valley. Domesday.

Doubted. Vaughan, C. J., dubitavit. Freem. 150.

The trial by battel or judicial combat. See BATTEL.

In old records. A bank of earth cast up; the side of a ditch. Cowell.

The technical fault, In pleading, of uniting two or more causes of actionin one count in a writ, or two or more grounds of defense in one plea, or two or morebreaches

In its most usual signification this word is the synonym of imposts or customs; but it is sometimes used in a broader sense, as including all manner of taxes,charges, or governmental impositions.

In Scotch law. A habit which debtors who are set free on a ccssiobonorum are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of ccssio it be libeled,PUB tained, and proved

To set off one claim against another; to deduct a debt due to one from adebt which one owes. Johnson v. Signal Co., 57 N. J. Eq. 79, 40 Atl. 193 ;

Failure of the blood, i. e., failure or want of issue.

In the civil law. A defender; one who assumed the defense of another’scase in court. Also an advocate. A tutor or curator.In canon law. The advocate or patron of a church. An

In English law. To withhold wrongfully; to withhold the possession of lands from one who is lawfully entitled to them. 3 Bl. Comm. 172; Phelps v. Baldwin, 17 Conn. 212.In Scotch law.

L. Fr. Out of; without; beyond ; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 3 Bl. Comm. 387.

In French marine law. A discharging of ballast (Inst) from a vessel.