Category: D

A deed de una parte Is one where only one party grants, gives, or binds himself to do a thing to another. It differs from a deed inter partes, (q. v.) 2

A future use.

In Scotch law. A deed made by a person while laboring under a distemper of which he afterwards died. Ersk. Inst. .”., 8, 90. A deed is understood to be in death-bed,

In the civil and old English law. A debtor.

A deceased person; one who has lately died. Etymologically the word denotes a person who is dying, but it has come to be used in law as signifying any defunct person, (testate

Cro. Jac. 42. Tithes ought not to be paid where there is not an annual renovation, and from annual renovations once only.

One enacted for the purpose of removing doubts or putting an end to conflicting decisions in regard to what the law is in relation to a particular matter. It may either be

One where the decision is in favor of the plaintiff. Ersk. Inst. 4, 3, 5.

(Lat. I have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of conveyance when such instruments were made in Latin, and anciently held to imply a warranty of title. Deakius v.

Ten hides. Blount.

Fatal damage; damage from fate: loss happening from a cause beyond human control, (quod ex fato contingit,) or an act of God, and for which bailees are not liable ; such as

To clear a legal account; to answer an accusation; to settle a controversy.

In French law. The title of the eldest sons of the kings of France. Disused since 1530.

In equity. De jure striuto, nihil possum vendicare, de ccquitate tamen, nullo modo hoc obtinet; in strict law, I can claim nothing, but in equity this by no means obtains. Fleta, lib.

For hearing and determining; to hear and determine. The name of a writ, or rather commission granted to certain justices to bear and determine cases of heinous misdemeanor, trespass, riotous breach of

“For good and ill.” The Latin form of the law French phrase “Dc hicn ct de mat.” In ancient criminal pleading, this was the expression with which the prisoner put himself upon

Writ for delivering a clerk arrested on a statute merchant. A writ for the delivery of a clerk out of prison, who had been taken and imprisoned upon the breach of a

Writ for discharging or removing a coroner. A writ by which a coroner in England may be removed from office for some cause therein assigned. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 163, 104; 1 Bl.

Concerning gifts, (or more fully, de donis coiulitionalibus, concerning conditional gifts.) The name of a celebrated English statute, passed in the thirteenth year of Edw. I., and constituting the first chapter of

Writ for making execution in withernam. Reg. Orig. 826. A species of capias in withernam.