Category: D

A writ of intrusion; where a stranger entered after the death of the tenant, to the injury of the reversioner. Reg. Orig. 233b.

Of Illness. This phrase was frequently used to designate several species of essoin, (q. v.,) such as dc malo lecti, of illness in bed; de malo vcnicndi. of illness (or misfortune) in

In the civil law. A form of interdict or injunction which lies in some cases where the defendant is about to erect a “new work” (q. v.) in derogation or injury of

Of a plea ; of or iu an action. Formal words used in declarations and other proceedings, as descriptive of the particular action brought.

Writ to send the record and process of a cause to a superior court; a species of writ of error. Reg. Orig. 209.

From like things to like things we are to proceed by the same rule or reason, [i. e., we are allowed to argue from the analogy of cases.] Branch, Princ.

Writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in reversion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or

In old European law. A profession of irreconcilable hatred till a person is revenged even by the death of his enemy.

The executioner; hangman ; he that executes the extreme penalty of the law.

A female debtor.

(Ten such; or ten tales, jurors.) In practice. The name of a writ which issues in England, where, on a trial at bar, ten jurors are necessary to make up a full

A French coin of the value of the tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents.

In Scotch law. A plea to the Jurisdiction, on the ground that the judge Is interested in the suit.

Lat. In old English law. Decrease of the sea; the receding of the sea from the land. Callis, Sewers, (03,) 65. See RELICTION.

To appropriate and set apart one’s private property to some public use; as to make a private way public by acts evincing an intention to do so.

An abbreviation for de bene esse

A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream for the purpose of penning back the waters. This word is used in two different senses. It properly means the

Anciently the better sort of men In England had this title; so the Spanish Don. The old term of honor for men, as we now say Master or Mister. Wharton.

In old English law. The last presentment. See ASSISE OF DARREIN PRESENTMENT

(L. Lat. dies in banco.) In practice. Certain stated days in term appointed for the appearance of parties, the return of process, etc.. originally peculiar to the court of common pleas, or