Category: D

A writ which lay for one arrested in a personal action and committed to prison under a mistake as to his identity, the proper defendant bearing the same name. Reg. Orig. 194.

Of legacies and trusts. The name of a title of the Pandects. Dig. 30.

Writ of threats. A writ which lay where a person was threatened with personal violence, or the destruction of his property, to compel the offender to keep the peace. Reg. Orig. 886,

Of peace, (breach of peace,) aud wounds. One of tlie kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England, and which lay in cases of assault, wounding, aud breach of the peace.

An ancient writ of entry.

For having a return; to have a return. A term applied to the judgment for the defendant in an action of replevin, awarding him a return of the goods replevied; and to

From time to time, and at all times. Townsh. PI. 17.

A corpse. The body of a human being, deprived of life, but not yet entirely disintegrated. Meads v. Dougherty County, 98 Ga. 097, 25 S. E. 915.

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical dignitary who presides over the chapter of a cathedral, and is next in rank to the bishop. So callcd from having been originally appointed to superintend

Every man’s house should be a perfectly safe refuge. Clason v. Shot- well, 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 31, 54.

In English law. A summons issuing from a court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy. upon the creditor proving a liquidated debt of not less than

To decide Includes the power and right to deliberate, to weigh the reasons for and against, to see which preponderate, and to be governed by that preponderance. Darden v. Lines, 2 Fla.

Statements made by a person who is lying at the point of death, and is conscious of his approaching dissolution, in reference to the manner in which he received the injuries of

One entered in a probate court, declaring the estate in question to be insolvent, that is. that the assets are not sufficient to pay the debts in full. Rush v. Coleman, 121

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign, in relation to ecclesiastical matters. Schm. Civil Law, 93, note.

A sealed instrument, containing a contract or covenant, delivered by the party to be bound thereby, and accepted by the party to whom the contract or covenant runs.A writing containing a contract

Lat. (Will you give? I will give.) In the Roman law. One of the forms of making a verbal stipulation. Inst. 3, 15, 1; Bract, fol. 156.

Damages, both inclusive and exclusive of costs.

In Spanish law. Damage; the deterioration, injury, or destruction which a man suffers with respect to his person or his property by the fault (culpa) of another. White, New Recop. b. 2,

A word derived from the Roman law, signifying “appointed by public authority.” Thus, in Scotland, an executor- dative is an executor appointed by a court of justice, corresponding to an English administrator.