Category: D

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

The statute 17 Edw. I., St. 1, c. 9, defining the prerogatives of the crown on certain subjects, but especially directing that the king shall have ward of the lands of idiots,

Writ of redisseisin. A writ which lay where a man recovered by assise of novel disseisin land, rent, or common, and the like, and was put in possession thereof by verdict, and

Writ of surcharge of pasture. A judicial writ which lay for him who was impleaded in the county court, for surcharging a common with his cattle, In a case where he was

Writ of warranty of charter. A writ which lay for him who was enfeoffed, with clause of warranty. [in the charter of feoffment,] and was afterwards impleaded In an assise or other

A dealer, in the popular, and therefore in the statutory, sense of the word, is not one who buys to keep, or makes to sell, but one who buys to sell again.

He owes and detains. Words anciently used in the original writ, (and now, in English, in the plaintiff’s declaration.) in an action of debt, where it was brought by one of the

A debt is a sum of money due by contract. It is most frequently due by a certain and express agreement, which fixes the amount, independent of extrinsic circumstances. But it is

In Scotch law. To decree. “Decernit and ordainit.” 1 IIow. State Tr. 927. “Decerns.” Shaw, 16.

In pleading. The first of the pleadings on the part of the plaintiff in an action at law, being a formal and methodical specification of the facts and circumstances constituting his cause

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 “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.