Category: D

Of those who are to be put on assises. The title of a statute passed 21 Edw. I. defining the qualifications of jurors. Crabb, Eng. Daw, 167, 189; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law,

Writ of free fishery. A species of quod pennittat. Reg. Orig. 155.

Cro. Jac. 420. A prohibition lies not against a newly-erected mill.

Span. By word; by parol. White, New Reeop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 3,

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.

Tithes are due to the parish priest.

In Scotch law. An action in which the right of the pursuer (or plaintiff) is craved to be declared, but nothing claimed to be done by the defender, (defendant.) Ersk. Inst. 5,

In Scotch law. The final Judgment or sentence of a court

The act of depriving of a crown.

A kind of gun. 1 How. State Tr. 1124, 1125.

To cause damage or injurious loss to a person or put him in a position where he must sustain it. A surety is “damnified” when a judgment has been obtained against him.

A steward either of a king or lord. Spelman.

It is given to the more worthy. 2 Vent 268.

Of (about) acquiring the ownership of things. Dig. 41, 1; Bract, lib. 2, fol. 86.