Category: D

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.

Writ of champerty. A writ directed to the justices of the bench, commanding the enforcement of the statute of cliampcrtors. Reg. Orig. 183; Fitzh. Nat.Brev. 172.

Concerning the conflict of laws. The title of several works written on that subject 2 Kent, Comm. 455.

A writ of debt Reg. Orig. 139.

Writ for having estovers. A writ which lay for a wife divorced

In French law. A clause commonly inserted in policies of marine insurance, equivalent to a license to touch and trade at intermediate ports. American Ins. Co. v. Griswold, 14 Wend. (N. Y.)

(Lat. For taking a man in withernam.) A writ to take a man who had carried away a bondman or bondwoman into another country beyond the reach of a writ of replevin.

L. Fr. Of the most fair. A term applied to a species of dower, which was assigned out of the fairest of the husband’s tenements. Litt.

“Concerning merchants.” The name of a statute passed in the eleventh year of Edw. I. (1233.) more commonly called the “Statute of Acton Bur- nel,” authorizing the recognizance by statute merchant. See

Writ for charging according to a rateable proportion. A writ which lay for a joint tenant, or tenant in common, who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of tlie land

Of the present; in the present tense. See PER VERBA DE I’R.ESENTI.

A writ by which one tenant in common seeks to compel another to aid in repairing the property held in common. 8 Barn. & C. 209.

Of showing the tablets of a will. Dig. 43, 5.

A writ that lay where a man had a day in any action to appear in proper person, and the king at that day. or before, employed him in some service, so