DE DOLO MALO
Of or founded upon fraud. Dig. 4, 3. See ACTIO DF. DOLO MALO.
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Of or founded upon fraud. Dig. 4, 3. See ACTIO DF. DOLO MALO.
Writ for retaking an excommunicated person, where he had been liberated from prison without making satisfaction to the church, or giving security for that purpose. Reg. Orig. G7.
A writ prohibiting the taking of fines for beau pleader. Reg. Orig. 179.
Of infirmity. The principal essoin in the time of Glanville; afterwards called “de malo.” 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 115. See DE HALO; ESSOIN.
A writ of various forms, to enable a citizen to recover the liberties to which he was entitled Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 229; Reg. Orig. 202.
As to the proper name, it is not to be regarded where it errs not in substance, because names are changeable, but things immutable.
A writ which lay to make partition of lands or tenements held by several as coparceners, tenants in common, etc. Reg. Orig. 76; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 61, R; Old Nat. Brev. 142.
A writ which lay for the wife and children of a deceased person against his executors, to recover their reasonable part or share of his goods. 2 Bl. Comm. 402; Fitzh. Nat
A writ of safe conduct. Reg. Orig. 256, 26.
A writ of trespass. Reg. Orig. 92.
A mortgage; mortuum vadium.
A warrant from the proper executive authority appointing the time and place for the execution of the sentence of death upon a convict judicially condemned to suffer that penalty.
L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb. Eng. Law, 107.
In ecclesiastical and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and military, officers. Decanus monasticus; a monastic dean,
Tithes are not to be paid from that which is given for tithes.
A declaratory judgment is one which simply declares the rights of the parties, or expresser, the opinion of the court on a question of law, without ordering anything to be done.
A decree dismissing a claim, or acquitting a defendant. 2 Kames. Eq. 307
To cry down; to deprive of credit. “The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current.” 1 BL Comm. 27S.
Every day; every day in the week; every day in the week except one. A newspaper which Is published six days in each week is a “daily” newspaper. Richardson v. Tobin, 45
Lat. In the civil law. Damage; the loss or diminution of what is a man’s own, either by fraud, carelessness, or accident. In pleading and old English law. Damage ; loss.