Category: D

A conflict or controversy; a conflict of claims or rights; an assertion of aright, claim, or demand on one side, met by contrary claims or allegations on the other.Slaven v. Wheeler, 58

Protestant seceders from the established church of England. They areof many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents, Methodists, and Baptists; but, as to church government, the Baptists are Independents.

One that has no bounds with regard to its quantity, and may he repeatedfrom time to time, until the stubbornness of the party is conquered. Such aredistresses for fealty or suit of

D WAYLEAVE Is a right of way over or ” through land for the carriage of minerals froma mine or quarry. It is an easement, being a species of the class called

A perpendicular bank or mound “of timber, or stone and earth, raised on theshore of a harbor, river, canal, etc., or extending some distance into the water, for theconvenience of lading and

A term applied to a sale by auction, indicating that no price is reserved.

In the practice of the courts, ” a recess is a short interval or period of time during which the court suspends business, but without adjourning. See In re Gannon, 69 Cal.

A method of sale by auction which consists in the public offer of the property at a price beyond its value, and then gradually lowering the price until some one becomes the

With reference to the laws and the courts of any given state, a “domestic” corporation is one created by, or organized under, the laws of that state; a “foreign” corporation is one

The ordinary single costs of suit, and one-half of that amount in addition. 2 Tidd, Pr. 9S7. “Double” is not used here in its ordinary sense of “twice” the amount. Van Aulen

One established, organized, and exercising its judicial functions under authority of a statute apparently valid, though such statute may be in fact unconstitutional and may be afterwards so adjudged; or a court

That which is granted when an executor dies leaving a part of the estate unadministered. Conklin v. Egerton, 21 Wend. (N. Y.) 430; Clemens v. Walker, 40 Ala. 1S9.

That which is granted during the absence of the executor and until he has proved the will.

Where an infant is made executor; in which case administration with will annexed is granted to another, during the minority of such executor, and until he shall attain his lawful age to

One appointed at t he place of the domicile of the decedent; distinguished from a foreign or an ancillary administrator.

A form of insanity resulting from degeneration or disorder of the brain (ideo- pathic or traumatic, but not congenital) and characterized by general mental weakness and decrepitude, forgetfuiness, loss of coherence, and

Also a jury composed partly of negroes and partly of white men.

The fourth letter of the English alphabet. It is used as an abbreviation for a number of words, the more important and usual of which are as follows: 1. Digestuin, or Digcsta,

A certain measure of land; such narrow slips of pasture as are left between the plowed furrows in arable land. Cowell.

Loss, hurt, or harm without injury in the legal sense, that is, without such an invasion of rights as is redressible by an action. A loss which does not give rise to