Category: D

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tithes are due to the parish priest.

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,

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

The act of depriving of a crown.

The raised floor at the upper end of a hall.

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

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,

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,

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.

(Lat For proroguing assise.) A writ to put off an assise, issuing to the justices, where one of the parties is engaged in the service of the king.

Of the goods of the testator, or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual property of his

Of close broken ; of breach of close. See CLAUSUM FREOIT.

Writ for delivering the copy of a libel. An ancient writ directed to the judge of a spiritual court, commanding him to deliver to a defendant a copy of the libel filed