Category: D

A future use.

In Scotch law. A deed made by a person while laboring under a distemper of which he afterwards died. Ersk. Inst. .”., 8, 90. A deed is understood to be in death-bed,

In the civil and old English law. A debtor.

A deceased person; one who has lately died. Etymologically the word denotes a person who is dying, but it has come to be used in law as signifying any defunct person, (testate

Cro. Jac. 42. Tithes ought not to be paid where there is not an annual renovation, and from annual renovations once only.

One enacted for the purpose of removing doubts or putting an end to conflicting decisions in regard to what the law is in relation to a particular matter. It may either be

One where the decision is in favor of the plaintiff. Ersk. Inst. 4, 3, 5.

(Lat. I have given.) A word used in deeds and other instruments of conveyance when such instruments were made in Latin, and anciently held to imply a warranty of title. Deakius v.

Fictitious names of places, used In the English books, as examples. “The manor of Dale and the manor of Sale, lying both in Vale.”

In the civil law. A loss arising from a payment made by a party in consequence of an error of law. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

L. Fr. Last

1. A period of time consisting of twenty-four hours and including the solar day and the night. Co. Litt. 135a; Fox v. Abel, 2 Conn. 541. 2. The space of time which

In Roman law. One of the innominate contracts, and, in effect, a sale of land or goods at a price fixed, (wsti- mato,) and guarantied by some third party, who undertook to

Writ for taking cattle in withernam. A writ which lay where the sheriff returned to a plurics writ of replevin that the cattle or goods, etc., were eloinetl, etc.; by which he

For good behavior; for good abearance.

See CLERICO CONVICTO, etc.

Writ for having a corody. A writ to exact a eonxly from a religious house. Reg. Orig. 264, Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 230. See CORODY.

A writ of dower which lay for a widow where no part of her dower had been assigned to her. It is now much disused; but a form closely resembling it is

A writ directed to a sheriff or bailiff, commanding him to do execution upon a judgment. Reg. Orig. 18; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 20.

Concerning those that break prison. The title of the statute 1 Edw. II. ordaining that none from thenceforth who broke prison should have judgment of life or limb for breaking prison only,