A bond given upon the seizure of goods (as under the revenue laws) conditioned for theirrestoration to the defendant, or the payment of their value, if so adjudged.

An order addressed, in England, by the owner of goods to a person holding themon his behalf, requesting him to deliver them to a person named iu the order. Deliveryorders are chiefly

In medical jurisprudence. An insane delusion is an unreasoning and incorrigiblebelief in the existence of facts which are either impossible absolutely, or, atleast, impossible under the circumstances of the individual. It is

An abbreviation for “demise;” e. g

v. In practice. To claim as one’s due; to require; to ask relief. To summon; to call in court. “Although solemnly demanded, comes not, but makes default.”

In Spanish law. The petition of a plaintiff, setting forth his demand. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 10, 1. 3.

The plaintiff or party suing in a real action. Co. Litt. 127.

A female demandant

In old English law. Death.

In Scotch law. Maliciously cutting off or otherwise separating one limb from another. 1 Hume, 323; Bell.

One whose mental faculties are enfeebled; one who has lost his mind; distinguishable from amens, one totally insane.

Of unsound mind.

L. Fr. From this time forward. Kelhain.

Domain ; dominical; held in one’s own right, and not of a superior; not allotted to tenants. In the language of pleading, own; proper; original. Thus, .’ton assault demesne, his own assault,

A man is said to be seised in his demesne as of fee of a corporeal inheritance, because he has a property,dominicum or demesne, in the thing itself. But when he has

In English law. Those lands of a manor notgranted out in tenancy, but reserved by the lord for his own use and occupation. Landsset apart and appropriated by the lord for his

That share of lands reserved to the crown at the original distribution of landed property, orwhich came to it afterwards by forfeiture or otherwise. 1 Bl. Comm. 2S0; 2 Steph. Comm. 550.

Pertaining to a demesne.

French. Half; the half. Used chiefly in composition. As to demi “Mark,” “Official,” “Vill,” see those titles.

Half-blood.