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Transactions in the course of trade or business. Held to include payments to a bankrupt. Moody & M. 137; 3 Car. & P. 85.

(Lat. He owes and is used to.) Where a man sues in a writ of right or to recover any right of which he is for the first time disseised, as of

A person to whom a debt Is due; a creditor. 3 Bl. Comm. 18; Plowd. 543. Not used.

In the civil and old English law. Death; departure.

A formal declaration or announcement, promulgated July 4, 1776, by the congress of the United States of America, in the name and behalf of the people of the colonies, asserting and proclaiming

To inveigle, entice, tempt, or lure; as, to decoy a person within the jurisdiction of a court so that he may be served with process, or to decoy a fugitive criminal to

The decretals of Gregory the Ninth. A collection of the laws of the church, published by order of Gregory IX. in 1227. It is composed of five books, subdivided into titles, and

By “deduction” is understood a portion or thing which an heir has a right to take from the mass of the succession before any partition takes place. Civil Code La. art. 1358.

An abbreviation for debitum sine brcvi, or debit sans breve.

Twice the amount of actual damages as found by the verdict of a jury allowed bv statute in some cases of injuries by negligence, fraud, or trespass. Cross v. United States. 0

One dangerous to life; one by the use of which a fatal wound may probably or possibly be given. As the manner of use enters Into the consideration as well as other

In the civil law. A gift; a giving of something. It is not exactly synonymous with “donation,” for the latter implies generosity or liberality in making a gift, while dation may mean

That portion of time before sunrise, and after sunset, which is accounted part of the day, (as distinguished from night,) in defining the offense of burglary. 4 Bl. Comm. 224; Cro. Jac.

(Lat. Of arbitration had.) A writ formerly used when an action was brought for a cause which had been settled by arbitration. Wats. Arb. 250.

L. Fr. Of good memory ; of sound mind. 2 Inst. 510.

L. Fr. Of flesh and blood. Affaire recliat de char et dc sank. Words used in claiming a person to be a villein, in the time of Edward II. Y. B. P.

Concerning persons jointly enfeoffed, or seised. The title of the statute 34 Edw. I., which was passed to prevent the delay occasioned by tenants in novel disseisin, and other writs, pleading that

In Roman law. “Of cutting a debtor In pieces.” This was the name of a law contained In the Twelve Tables, the meaning of which has occasioned much controversy. Some commentators have

A writ which lay to prevent or stay waste by a tenant, during the pendency of a suit against hiin to recover the lands. Reg. Orig. 7Gb. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. Ga

Writ of false judgment. Reg. Orig. 15; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 18. See FAI.SE JUDGMENT.