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DE INCREMENTO

Of increase; in addition. Costs de incremento, or costs of increase, are the costs adjudged by the court in civil actions, in addition to the damages and nominal costs found by the

DE PARCO FRACTO

A writ or action for damages caused by a pound-breach. (7. r.) It has long been obsolete. Co. Litt 476; 3 Bl. Comm. 146.

DE RAPTU VIRGINUM

Of the ravishment of maids. The name of an appeal formerly in use in England in cases of rape. Bract fol. 147; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 38.

DE SALVA GARDIA

A writ of safeguard allowed to strangers seeking their rights in English courts, and apprehending violence or Injury to their persons or property. Reg. Orig. 26.

DE THEOLiONIO

A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. Orig. 103.

DEAD MAN’S PART

In English law. That portion of the effects of a deceased person which, by the custom of London and York, is allowed to the administrator; being, where the deceased leaves a widow

DEATH

The extinction of life; the departure of the soul from the body; defined by physicians as a total stoppage of the circulation of the blood, and a cessation of the animal and

DEBITA FUNDI

L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 11.

DECANIA

The office, jurisdiction, territory, or command of a dccanus, or dean. Spelman.

DECLARATORY ACTION

In Scotch law. An action in which the right of the pursuer (or plaintiff) is craved to be declared, but nothing claimed to be done by the defender, (defendant.) Ersk. Inst. 5,

DECREET

In Scotch law. The final Judgment or sentence of a court

DAMNOSA HEREDITAS

In the civil law. A losing inheritance; an inheritance that was a charge, instead of a benefit Dig. 50, 16, 119. The term has also been applied to that species of property

DARE

Lat. In the civil law. To transfer property. When this transfer is made in order to discharge a debt, it is datio sol- vcndi animo; when in order to receive an equivalent,

DAUGHTER

An immediate female descendant People v. Kaiser, 119 Cal. 456, 51 Pac. 702. May include the issue of a daughter. Buchanan v. Lloyd, SS Md. 462, 41 Atl. 1075; Jamison v. Ilay,

DE ADMENSURATIONE

Of admeasurement Thus, de admensuratione dotis was a writ for the admeasurement of dower, and de admensuratione pastures was a writ for the admeasurement of pasture.

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