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In the Roman law. A bankrupt; a spendthrift; a squanderer of public funds. Calvin.

A supplemental collection of the canon law, published by Boniface VIII. in 1208, called, also, “Liber Sex t us Dccretalium,” (Sixth Book of the Decretals.)

In Roman law. Criminals who had been marked in the face or on the body with lire or an iron, so that the mark could not lie erased, and subsequently manumitted. Calvin.

An abbreviation for Domus Proee- rinn, the house of lords.

A pecuniary compensation or indemnity, which may be recovered in the courts by any person who has suffered loss, detriment, or injury, whether to his person, property, or rights, through the unlawful

The expression “dangers of the sea” means those accidents peculiar to navigation that are of an extraordinary nature. or arise from irresistible force or overwhelming power, which cannot be guarded against by

In French law. A deed is said to have a date certaine (fixed date) when it has been subjected to the formality of registration; after this formality has been complied with, the

In English law. A permission granted to a prisoner to go out of prison, for the purpose of transacting his business, as to hear a case in which he Is concerned at

Breve. Writ of annual pension. An ancient writ by which the king, having a yearly pension due him out of an abbey or priory for any of his chaplains, demanded the same

L. Fr. Of the goods of the deceased. Dyer, 32.

A writ for certifying. A writ directed to the sheriff, requiring him to certify to a particular fact Reg. Orig. 24.

By the advice (or direction) of the court.

Breve. L. Lat. Writ of ward, or writ of right of ward. A writ which lay for a guardian in knight’s service or in socage, to recover the possession and custody of

A writ which issued upon an essoin of malum lecti being cast, to examine whether the party was in fact sick or not. Reg. Orig. 86.

One which has purported to pass the property from the owner to another. Bank v. IjOgan, 74 N. Y. 575; Edmunds v. Transp. Co., 135 Mass. 283.

A writ for respiting or postponing homage. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 209, A.

Of right; legitimate; lawful ; by right and just title. In this sense it is the contrary of de facto, (which see.) It may also be contrasted with de gratia, in which

Of or for the better damages. A term used in practice to denote the election by a plaintiff against which of several defendants (where the damages have been assessed separately) he will

L. Fr. Of ollice; in virtue of ollice; officially; in the discharge of ordinary duty.

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