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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 “Deputy Sheriff.”

Direct damages are such as follow immediately upon the act done; while consequential damages are the necessary and connected effect of the wrongful act. flowing from some of its consequences or results,

In old English law. A money payment made by forest-tenants, that they might have liberty to plow and sow in time of pannage, or mast feeding.

In the civil law. A giving, or act of giving. Datio in solutum; a giving in payment; a species of accord and satisfaction. Called, in modern law, “dation.”

A dairy. Cowell.

For a yearly rent. A writ to recover an annuity, no matter how payable, in goods or money. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258.

Concerning men twice married. The title of the statute 4 Edw. I. St 3; so called from the initial words of the fifth chapter. 2 Inst. 272; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 142.

Writ of champerty. A writ directed to the justices of the bench, commanding the enforcement of the statute of cliampcrtors. Reg. Orig. 183; Fitzh. Nat.Brev. 172.

Concerning the conflict of laws. The title of several works written on that subject 2 Kent, Comm. 455.