Category: D

A writ which lay for the arrest of one who had taken the king’s money to serve in the war, and hid himself to escape going. Reg. Orig. 246.

Of the goods not administered. When an administrator is appointed to succeed another, who has left the estate partially unsettled, he is said to be granted “administration de bonis non;” that is,

Of victuals to be used. The title of a sumptuary statute passed 10 Edw. III. St. 3, to restrain the expense of entertainments. Barring. Ob. St. 240.

By the advice or direction of the court. Bract, fol. 3456.

A writ that lay where one was distrained for rent that ought to be paid by others proportionably with him. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 234; Termes de la Ley.

A law French phrase, equivalent to the Latin de avo et de tritavo, descriptive of the ancestral rights of lords in their villeins. Literally, “from grandfather and from great-grandfather’s treat-granilfather.” It occurs

Concerning the fidelity and official conduct of a judge, no question is [will he] entertained; hut [only] concerning his knowledge, whether tlie error [committed] he of law or of fact. I’.ac. Max.

An old common-law writ, long obsolete, to inquire whether a man be an idiot or not. 2 Steph. Comm. 509.

Writ for removing a leper. A writ to remove a leper who thrust himself into the company of his neighbors In any parish, in public or private places, to their annoyance. Reg.

A writ to send the tenor of a record, or to exemplify it under the great seal. Reg. Orig. 2206.

Of peace [breach of peace] and robbery. One of tlie kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England, and which lay in cases of robbery and breach of the peace. Bract,

In the civil law. A contract by which one who bas a claim difficult to recover agrees with another to give a part, for the purpose of obtaining his services to recover

L. Fr. Of his or her life; of ills own life; as distinguished from pur autre vie, for another’s life. Litt.

Of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive.

Betters which the postal department has not been able to deliver to the persons for whom they were intended. They are sent to the “dead-letter office,” where they are opened, and returned

the presiding judge of the Court of Arches, lie is also an assistant judge in the court of aiiiuiraltv. 1 Kent, Comm. 371; 3 Steph. Comm. 727.

A sum charged as due or owing. The term is used in book-keeping to denote the charging of a person or an account with all that is supplied to or paid out

A deanery. Spelman. A company of ten persons. Calvin.

In ecclesiastical law. Tenths, or tithes. The tenth part of the annual prof- It of each living, payable formerly to the pope. There were several valuations made of these livings at different

Explanatory; designed to fix or elucidate what before was uncertain or doubtful.