DEBITA LAICORUM
L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb. Eng. Law, 107.
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L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb. Eng. Law, 107.
In ecclesiastical and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and military, officers. Decanus monasticus; a monastic dean,
Tithes are not to be paid from that which is given for tithes.
A declaratory judgment is one which simply declares the rights of the parties, or expresser, the opinion of the court on a question of law, without ordering anything to be done.
A decree dismissing a claim, or acquitting a defendant. 2 Kames. Eq. 307
To cry down; to deprive of credit. “The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current.” 1 BL Comm. 27S.
Every day; every day in the week; every day in the week except one. A newspaper which Is published six days in each week is a “daily” newspaper. Richardson v. Tobin, 45
Lat. In the civil law. Damage; the loss or diminution of what is a man’s own, either by fraud, carelessness, or accident. In pleading and old English law. Damage ; loss.
To give away in fee, or forever.
The wife of one’s son.
L. Lat. With or by the advice of our council. A phrase used In the old writs of summons to parliament Crabb, Eng. Law, 240.
A writ which lay to the judges of a court, requiring them to receive and admit an attorney for a party. Reg. Orig. 172; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 156.
(Eat. From the goods of the testator, if he has an p. and, if not., fmm those o/ the executor.) A judgment rendered where an executor falsely pleads any matter as a
See ADMITTENDO CLERICO.
Writ for electing a coroner. A writ issued to the sheriff in England, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner,- which is done in full county court, the freeholders
A writ which lay for one tenant in common to compel his co-tenant to contribute towards the repair of the common property.
“Concerning excuses.” This is the title of book 27 of the Pandects, (in the Corpus Juris Civilis.) It treats of the circumstances which excuse one from filling the office of tutor or
A writ which lay for the release of one imprisoned for a re-disseisin, on payment of a reasonable fine. Reg. Orig. 222b.
A writ of entry. Reg. Orig. 227b, et seq.
Writ of permission to cross the sea. An old writ directed to the wardens of the port of Dover, or other seaport in England, commanding them to permit the persons named in