Category: D

In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creationof a fief, containing a description of the flef, and all the rights and Incidents belonging to It. Guyot, Inst.

In Scotch practice. To depose ; to make oath In writing.

In French law. The depositum of the Roman and the deposit of the Englishlaw. It is of two kinds, being either (1) d(p6t simply so called, and which may be eithervoluntary or

One who Is descended from another; a person who proceeds from the body of another, such as a child, grandchild, etc., to the remotest degree. The terms the opposite of “ascendant,” (?.

Official communications of official persons on the affairs of government.

As used in policies of Insurance, leases, and in maritime law, this term Isoften applied to an act which renders the subject useless for its intended purpose,though it does not literally demolish

To be torn In pieces by horses. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 37.

In practice. The name of an issue sent out of a court of chancery, or one which exercises chancery jurisdiction, to a court of law, to try the validity of a paper

Dialogue of or about the exchequer. An ancient treatiseon the court of exchequer, attributed by some to Gervase of Tilbury, by others toRichard Fitz Nigel, bishop of London in the reign of

The day begins ; dies venit, the day has come.Two expressions in Roman law which signify the vesting or fixing of an interest, and the interest becoming a present one. Sandars’ Just.

In old English law. A solar day, as distinguished from what was called “dieslunaris,” (a lunar day;) both composing an artificial day. Bract, fol. 264. See DAY.

Judicial decision or determination

A government of two persons.

One which is absolute and unconditional as to the time, amount, and thepersons by whom and to whom it is to be made. People v. Boy- Ian (C. C.) 25 Fed. 595.See

In ecclesiastical law. This is where the appropriation of abenefice is severed, either by the patron presenting a clerk or by the corporation whichhas the appropriation being dissolved. 1 Bl. Comm. 385.

In a general sense, an allowance or deduction made from a gross sumon any account whatever. In a more limited and technical sense, the taking of Interestinadvance.By the language of the commercial

In mercantile law and usage. To refuse or decline to accept a bill ofexchange, or to refuse or neglect to pay a bill or note at maturity. Shelton v. Braithwaite,7 Mees. &

Contrary to the rules of good order and behavior; violative of the public peace or good order; turbulent, riotous, or indecent.

In Scotch law. To grant or convey. A technical word essential to theconveyance of heritable property, and for which no equivalent is accepted, howeverclear may be the meaning of the party. Paters.

In old Scotch law. Disseisin ; dispossession. Skene.