Category: D

A corpse. The body of a human being, deprived of life, but not yet entirely disintegrated. Meads v. Dougherty County, 98 Ga. 097, 25 S. E. 915.

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical dignitary who presides over the chapter of a cathedral, and is next in rank to the bishop. So callcd from having been originally appointed to superintend

Every man’s house should be a perfectly safe refuge. Clason v. Shot- well, 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 31, 54.

In English law. A summons issuing from a court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy. upon the creditor proving a liquidated debt of not less than

To decide Includes the power and right to deliberate, to weigh the reasons for and against, to see which preponderate, and to be governed by that preponderance. Darden v. Lines, 2 Fla.

Statements made by a person who is lying at the point of death, and is conscious of his approaching dissolution, in reference to the manner in which he received the injuries of

One entered in a probate court, declaring the estate in question to be insolvent, that is. that the assets are not sufficient to pay the debts in full. Rush v. Coleman, 121

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign, in relation to ecclesiastical matters. Schm. Civil Law, 93, note.

A sealed instrument, containing a contract or covenant, delivered by the party to be bound thereby, and accepted by the party to whom the contract or covenant runs.A writing containing a contract

Lat. (Will you give? I will give.) In the Roman law. One of the forms of making a verbal stipulation. Inst. 3, 15, 1; Bract, fol. 156.

Damages, both inclusive and exclusive of costs.

In Spanish law. Damage; the deterioration, injury, or destruction which a man suffers with respect to his person or his property by the fault (culpa) of another. White, New Recop. b. 2,

A word derived from the Roman law, signifying “appointed by public authority.” Thus, in Scotland, an executor- dative is an executor appointed by a court of justice, corresponding to an English administrator.

In old English law. A term applied to land, and signifying as much arable ground as could be plowed up in one day’s work. Cowell.

A writ which lay for the arrest of one who had taken the king’s money to serve in the war, and hid himself to escape going. Reg. Orig. 246.

Of the goods not administered. When an administrator is appointed to succeed another, who has left the estate partially unsettled, he is said to be granted “administration de bonis non;” that is,

Of victuals to be used. The title of a sumptuary statute passed 10 Edw. III. St. 3, to restrain the expense of entertainments. Barring. Ob. St. 240.

By the advice or direction of the court. Bract, fol. 3456.

A writ that lay where one was distrained for rent that ought to be paid by others proportionably with him. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 234; Termes de la Ley.

A law French phrase, equivalent to the Latin de avo et de tritavo, descriptive of the ancestral rights of lords in their villeins. Literally, “from grandfather and from great-grandfather’s treat-granilfather.” It occurs