Category: D

Loss, injury, or deterioration, caused by the negligence, design, or accident of one person to another, in respect of the latter’s person or property. The word is to be distinguished from its

A system of laws introduced by the Danes on their invasion and conquest of England, and which was principally maintained in some of the midland counties, and also on the eastern coast.

Last seisin. A plea which lay in some cases for the tenant in a writ of right See 1 Rosa Real Act. 206.

A number of days allowed, as a matter of favor or grace, to a person who has to perform some act, or make some payment, after the time originally limited for the

Lat. Concerning bribery. A phrase descriptive of the subject-matter of several of the Roman laws; as the Lex Aufidia, the Lex Pompeia, the Lex Tullia, and others. See AMBITUS.

Of the bench. A term formerly applied in England to the justices of the court of common pleas, or “bench,” as it was originally styled.

(For restoring charters.) A writ to secure the delivery of charters or deeds; a writ of detinue. Reg. Orig. 1596.

Of house burning. One of the kinds of appeal formerly in use in England. Bract fol. 1466; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38.

Of course. The usual, necessary, and formal proceedings in an action are said to be de eursu; as distinguished from summary proceedings, or such as are incidental and may be taken on

A writ of exchange of money. An ancient writ to authorize a merchant to make a bill of exchange, (literas eambitorias facere.) Reg. Orig. 194.

An obsolete writ addressed to the sheriff to levy the expenses of every citizen and burgess of parliament 4 Inst. 40.

Writ for delivering an heir to him who has wardship of the land. A writ directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of him that was ward to

The name of a statute passed in the reign of Edward I. which enacted severe and arbitrary penalties against the Jews.

Writ of maintenance. A writ which lay against a person for the offense of maintenance. Reg. Orig. 189, 1826.

Co. Litt. 32. A widow shall have no part of that which in its own nature is indivisible, and is not susceptible of division, but let the heir satisfy her with an

Writ for acquitting or releasing pledges. A writ that lay for a surety, against him for whom he had become surety for the payment of a certain sum of money at a

Writ of right, of reasonable part. A writ which lay between privies in blood, as between brothers in gavelkind, or between sisters or other coparceners for lands in fee- simple, where one

The writ of statute merchant. Reg. Orig. 1466.

Writ of (or for) removing lay force. A writ which lay where two parsons contended for a church, and one of them entered into it with a great number of laymen, and

In old English law. To discharge from being forest. To free from forest laws.