Category: D

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.

Of which Formal words in the simple writ of entry, from which it was called a writ of entry “in the quo,” or “in the quibus.” 3 Reeve, Eng. Law,33.

L. Fr. Guilty af nothing; not guilty.

L. Fr. From time whereof memory runneth not; time out of memory of man. Litt. 143. 145, 170.

When a merchant who has chartered a vessel puts on board a part only of the intended cargo, but yet, having chartered the whole vessel, is bound to pay freight for the

In ecclesiastical law. The council of a bishop, to assist him with their advice in the religious and also in the temporal affairs of the see. 3 Coke, 75; 1 Bl. Comm.

A weak foundation frustrates [or renders vain] the work [built upon it.] Shep. Touch. CO; Noy, Max. 5, max. 12; Finch. Law, b. 1, ch. 3. When the foundation fails, all goes

The ten commandments given by God to Moses. The Jews called them the “Ten Words,” hence the name.

(Ten times as much.) The name of an ancient writ that was used against a juror who had taken a bribe In money for his verdict. The injured party could thus recover

In Scotch law. An action whereby it Is sought to have some right of property, or of status, or other right judicially ascertained and declared. Bell.

In Scotch law. A decree of the teind court modifying or fixing a stipend.

In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, being a judgment or sentence given by the emperor upon hearing of a cause, (quod impcrator cog- noscens decrevit.) Inst. 1, 2, 6.

In conveyancing. A deed executed or purporting to be executed in parts, between two or more parties, and distinguished by having the edge of the paper or parchment on which it is

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.

In old English law. A term applied to land, and signifying as much arable ground as could be plowed up in one day’s work. Cowell.