Category: D

Writ for charging according to a rateable proportion. A writ which lay for a joint tenant, or tenant in common, who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of tlie land

Of the present; in the present tense. See PER VERBA DE I’R.ESENTI.

A writ by which one tenant in common seeks to compel another to aid in repairing the property held in common. 8 Barn. & C. 209.

Of showing the tablets of a will. Dig. 43, 5.

A writ that lay where a man had a day in any action to appear in proper person, and the king at that day. or before, employed him in some service, so

Transactions in the course of trade or business. Held to include payments to a bankrupt. Moody & M. 137; 3 Car. & P. 85.

(Lat. He owes and is used to.) Where a man sues in a writ of right or to recover any right of which he is for the first time disseised, as of

A person to whom a debt Is due; a creditor. 3 Bl. Comm. 18; Plowd. 543. Not used.

In the civil and old English law. Death; departure.

A formal declaration or announcement, promulgated July 4, 1776, by the congress of the United States of America, in the name and behalf of the people of the colonies, asserting and proclaiming

To inveigle, entice, tempt, or lure; as, to decoy a person within the jurisdiction of a court so that he may be served with process, or to decoy a fugitive criminal to

The decretals of Gregory the Ninth. A collection of the laws of the church, published by order of Gregory IX. in 1227. It is composed of five books, subdivided into titles, and

By “deduction” is understood a portion or thing which an heir has a right to take from the mass of the succession before any partition takes place. Civil Code La. art. 1358.

An abbreviation for debitum sine brcvi, or debit sans breve.

Twice the amount of actual damages as found by the verdict of a jury allowed bv statute in some cases of injuries by negligence, fraud, or trespass. Cross v. United States. 0

One dangerous to life; one by the use of which a fatal wound may probably or possibly be given. As the manner of use enters Into the consideration as well as other

In the civil law. A gift; a giving of something. It is not exactly synonymous with “donation,” for the latter implies generosity or liberality in making a gift, while dation may mean

That portion of time before sunrise, and after sunset, which is accounted part of the day, (as distinguished from night,) in defining the offense of burglary. 4 Bl. Comm. 224; Cro. Jac.

(Lat. Of arbitration had.) A writ formerly used when an action was brought for a cause which had been settled by arbitration. Wats. Arb. 250.

L. Fr. Of good memory ; of sound mind. 2 Inst. 510.