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

A writ of safeguard allowed to strangers seeking their rights in English courts, and apprehending violence or Injury to their persons or property. Reg. Orig. 26.

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.