Category: D

A writ which lay for a person who was prevented from taking toll. Reg. Orig. 103.

In English law. That portion of the effects of a deceased person which, by the custom of London and York, is allowed to the administrator; being, where the deceased leaves a widow

The extinction of life; the departure of the soul from the body; defined by physicians as a total stoppage of the circulation of the blood, and a cessation of the animal and

L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst. 4, 1, 11.

The office, jurisdiction, territory, or command of a dccanus, or dean. Spelman.

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.

Concerning the property of religious persons curried away. The title of the statute 35 Edward I. passed to check the abuses of clerical possessions, one of which was the waste they suffered

Of his own goods. The technical name of a judgment against an administrator or executor to be satisfied from his own property, and not from the estate of the deceased, as in

By daylight. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 76,

Writ for taking a contumacious person. A writ which issues out of the English court of chancery, in cases where a person has been pronounced by an ecclesiastical court to be contumacious,

Of divers rules of the ancient law. A celebrated title of the Digests, and the last in that collection. It consists of two hundred and eleven rules or maxims. Dig. 50, 17.

A writ to deliver an excommunicated person, who has made satisfaction to the ehuicb, from prison. 3 Bl. Comm. 102.