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An Interpreter employed In the east, and particularly at the Turkish court.

A road or way over which cattle are driven. 1 Taunt. 279. Smith v. Ladd, 41 Me. 314.

In French feudal law. A relief payable by a noble vassal to the king as his seigneur, on every change in the ownership of his fief. Steph. Leet. 350.

To merge or sink. “In some cases a right of freehold shall drown In a chattel.” Co. Litt 266a, 321a.

It is doubted. A word frequently used in the reports to indicate that a point is considered doubtful.

A duel is any combat with deadly weapons, fought between two or more persons,by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. Pen. Code Cal.

A mountain or high open place. The names of places ending in dun or donwere either built on hills or near them in open places.

Double right Bract, fol. 2836. See DBOIT-DROIT.

A term used in Hindostan for a passport, permit, or order from tlieEnglish East Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exemptinggoods from the payment of duties. Euc. Lond.

In Scotch law. A bankrupt.

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.

In Spanish law. Crime; a crime, offense, or delict. White, New. Recop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 1, j 4.

Domain ; dominical; held in one’s own right, and not of a superior; not allotted to tenants. In the language of pleading, own; proper; original. Thus, .’ton assault demesne, his own assault,

The disuse of a particular metal for purposes of coinage. The withdrawal of the value of a metal as mouey.

L. Fr. In old English law. Denial; refusal. Denier is when the rent (being demanded upon the land) is not paid Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 5.