Category: D

A collection or compilation, embodying the chief matter of numerous booksin one, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement,for facility in reference.As a legal term, “digest” is

The moiety or half of a thing

The science of diplomas, or of ancient writings and documents; theart of judging of ancient charters, public documents, diplomas, etc., and discriminatingthe true from the false. Webster.

To deny a thing.

In Scotch law. Disavowal of tenure; denial that one holds lands of another. Bell.

To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, etc.

Tenths; tithes, (q. v.) The original form of “dime,” the name of the American coin.

To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert it into ordinary ground.

In the civil law. Discussion or argument before a court Mackeld. Rom. Law,

The opinion in which a judge announces his dissent from the conclusions held by the majority of the court, and expounds his own views.

The taking a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrong-doer intothe custody of the party injured, to procure a satisfaction for a wrong committed; as fornou-paymeut of rent, or injury

A writ to distrain the goods of one wholately filled the office of sheriff, to compel him to do some act which he ought to havedone before leaving the office; as to

In the practice of the English chancery division, “dives costs” are costs onthe ordinary scale, as opposed to the costs formerly allowed to a successful pauper suingor defending in forma pauperis, and

Fr. Tenth; the tenth part Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 1, art. 9.In old French law. An income tax payable to the crown. Steph. Lect. 359.

An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense, the term “document” applies to writings; to words printed, lithographed,

Lat. See DOLUS.

That place in which a man has voluntarily fixed the habitation of himself and family, not for a mere special or temporary purpose, but with the present intention of making a permanent

Ownership, or right to property. 2 Bl. Comm. 1. Title to an article of property which arises from the power of disposition and the right of claiming it Bilker v. Westcott, 73

The house of lords, abbreviated into Bom. Proc., or D. P.Domus sna cuique est tutissimnm re- fugium. To every man his own house is hissafest refuge. 5 Coke, 916; 11 Coke, 82;

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. State v. McBeth, 49 Kan. 584, 31 Pac. 145.