Category: D

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

Give the things which are yours whilst they are yours; after death they are not yours.

In English law. The legal designation of the wife of a knight or baronet.

The act of lending money on usury.

In French law. A giving by the debtor and receipt by the creditor of something in payment of a debt, instead of a sum of money. It is somewhat like the accord

An arbitrator, umpire, or elected judge. Cowell.

An old writ which lay to seize goods in the hands of a party during the pendency of a suit, to prevent their being made away with. Reg. Orig. 1206.

For goods taken away; for taking away goods. The action of trespass for taking personal property is technically called “trespass de bonis asportatis.” 1 Tidd, Pr. 5.

A writ for the enforcement of a right of way. Reg. Orig. 155.

Writs of cosiuage, (q. v.)

A writ of deceit which lay against one who acted in the name of another whereby the latter was damnified and deceived. Reg. Orig. 112.

L. Fr. Of water and whip of three cords. A term applied to a neife, that is, a bond woman or female villein, as employed in servile work, and subject to corporal

Of false money. The title of the statute 27 Edw. I. Ordaining that persons importing certain coins, called “pollards,” and “crokards,” should forfeit their lives and goods, and everything they could forfeit

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.