DE FINE FORCE
L. Fr. Of necessity; of pure necessity. See FINE FORCE.
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L. Fr. Of necessity; of pure necessity. See FINE FORCE.
Of increase; in addition. Costs de incremento, or costs of increase, are the costs adjudged by the court in civil actions, in addition to the damages and nominal costs found by the
Writ of free passage. A species of quod permittat. Reg. Orig. 155.
Where the death of a human being is concerned, Lin a matter of life and death,] no delay is [considered] long. Co. Litt. 134.
A writ or action for damages caused by a pound-breach. (7. r.) It has long been obsolete. Co. Litt 476; 3 Bl. Comm. 146.
A writ which lay for the wife and children of a deceased person against his executors, to recover their reasonable part or share of his goods. 2 Bl. Comm. 402; Fitzh. Nat
A writ of safe conduct. Reg. Orig. 256, 26.
A writ of trespass. Reg. Orig. 92.
A mortgage; mortuum vadium.
A warrant from the proper executive authority appointing the time and place for the execution of the sentence of death upon a convict judicially condemned to suffer that penalty.
L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb. Eng. Law, 107.
In ecclesiastical and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and military, officers. Decanus monasticus; a monastic dean,
Tithes are not to be paid from that which is given for tithes.
A declaratory judgment is one which simply declares the rights of the parties, or expresser, the opinion of the court on a question of law, without ordering anything to be done.
A decree dismissing a claim, or acquitting a defendant. 2 Kames. Eq. 307
To cry down; to deprive of credit. “The king may at any time decry or cry down any coin of the kingdom, and make it no longer current.” 1 BL Comm. 27S.
The raised floor at the upper end of a hall.
In the civil law. A losing inheritance; an inheritance that was a charge, instead of a benefit Dig. 50, 16, 119. The term has also been applied to that species of property
Lat. In the civil law. To transfer property. When this transfer is made in order to discharge a debt, it is datio sol- vcndi animo; when in order to receive an equivalent,
An immediate female descendant People v. Kaiser, 119 Cal. 456, 51 Pac. 702. May include the issue of a daughter. Buchanan v. Lloyd, SS Md. 462, 41 Atl. 1075; Jamison v. Ilay,