Category: D

In the Roman law. A bankrupt; a spendthrift; a squanderer of public funds. Calvin.

A supplemental collection of the canon law, published by Boniface VIII. in 1208, called, also, “Liber Sex t us Dccretalium,” (Sixth Book of the Decretals.)

In Roman law. Criminals who had been marked in the face or on the body with lire or an iron, so that the mark could not lie erased, and subsequently manumitted. Calvin.

An abbreviation for “Deputy Sheriff.”

Direct damages are such as follow immediately upon the act done; while consequential damages are the necessary and connected effect of the wrongful act. flowing from some of its consequences or results,

In old English law. A money payment made by forest-tenants, that they might have liberty to plow and sow in time of pannage, or mast feeding.

In the civil law. A giving, or act of giving. Datio in solutum; a giving in payment; a species of accord and satisfaction. Called, in modern law, “dation.”

A dairy. Cowell.

For a yearly rent. A writ to recover an annuity, no matter how payable, in goods or money. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258.

Concerning men twice married. The title of the statute 4 Edw. I. St 3; so called from the initial words of the fifth chapter. 2 Inst. 272; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 142.

Writ of champerty. A writ directed to the justices of the bench, commanding the enforcement of the statute of cliampcrtors. Reg. Orig. 183; Fitzh. Nat.Brev. 172.

Concerning the conflict of laws. The title of several works written on that subject 2 Kent, Comm. 455.

A writ of debt Reg. Orig. 139.

Writ for having estovers. A writ which lay for a wife divorced

In French law. A clause commonly inserted in policies of marine insurance, equivalent to a license to touch and trade at intermediate ports. American Ins. Co. v. Griswold, 14 Wend. (N. Y.)

(Lat. For taking a man in withernam.) A writ to take a man who had carried away a bondman or bondwoman into another country beyond the reach of a writ of replevin.

L. Fr. Of the most fair. A term applied to a species of dower, which was assigned out of the fairest of the husband’s tenements. Litt.

“Concerning merchants.” The name of a statute passed in the eleventh year of Edw. I. (1233.) more commonly called the “Statute of Acton Bur- nel,” authorizing the recognizance by statute merchant. See

Writ for charging according to a rateable proportion. A writ which lay for a joint tenant, or tenant in common, who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of tlie land

Of the present; in the present tense. See PER VERBA DE I’R.ESENTI.