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DE ATTORNATO RECIPIENDO

A writ which lay to the judges of a court, requiring them to receive and admit an attorney for a party. Reg. Orig. 172; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 156.

DE BONIS TESTATORIS AC SI

(Eat. From the goods of the testator, if he has an p. and, if not., fmm those o/ the executor.) A judgment rendered where an executor falsely pleads any matter as a

DE CORONATORE ELIGENDO

Writ for electing a coroner. A writ issued to the sheriff in England, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner,- which is done in full county court, the freeholders

DE DONIS

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

DE INJURIA

Of [his own] wrong. In the technical language of pleading, a replication de injuria is one that may be made iu an action of tort where the defendant has admitted the acts

DE LUNATICO INQUIRENDO

The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, directing him to Inquire by good and lawful men whether the party charged is a lunatic or not.

DE REBUS

Of things. The title of the third part of the Digests or Tandects, comprising books 12-19, inclusive.

DE UNA PARTE

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

DEATH-BED DEED

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,

DEBITOR

In the civil and old English law. A debtor.

DECEDENT

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

DECLARATORY STATUTE

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

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