In Scotch law. A dooms- man. One who pronounced the sentence of court. 1 How. State Tr. 937.

A pleading, petition, or the like, is said to be demurrable when it does not state such facts as support the claim, prayer, or defense put forward. 5 Ch. Div. 979.

One who demurs; the party who, in pleading, interposes a demurrer.

In maritime law. The sum which is fixed by the contract of carriage, or which is allowed, as remuneration to the owner of a ship for the detention of his vessel beyond

In pleading. The formal mode of disputing the sufficiency in law of the pleading of the other side. In effect it is an allegation that, even if the facts as stated in

This name is sometimes given to a ruling on an objection to evidence, but is notproperly a demurrer at all. Mandelort v. Land Co., 104 Wis. 423. 80 N. W. 720

Half-blood. A corruption of demi-sang

An ancient general term for any sort of pecunia numerata, or ready money.The French use the word “denier” in the same sense,

In English law. Customary oblations made to a cathedral church at Pentecost.

The chief silver coin among the Romans, worth 8d.; it was the seventhpart of a Roman ounce. Also an English penny. The denarius was first coined five yearsbefore the first Punic war,

(Lat “God’s penny.”) Earnest money; money given as a token of thecompletion of a bargain. It differs from arrliw in this: that arrhx is a part of theconsideration, while the denarius Dei

A traverse in the pleading of one party of an allegation of fact set up by theother; a’ defense. See Flack v. O’Brien, 19 Misc. Rep. 399, 43 N. T. Supp. 854;

L. Fr. In old English law. Denial; refusal. Denier is when the rent (being demanded upon the land) is not paid Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 5.

In French law. Earnest money; a sum of money given in token ofthe completion of a bargain. The phrase is a translation of the Latin Denarius Dei, (q. v.)

The act of making one a denizen; the conferring of the privileges ofcitizenship upon an alien born. Cro. Jac. 540. See DENIZEN.

To make a man a denizen or citizen.

In English law. A person who, being an alien born, has obtained, exdonatione regis, letters patent to make him an English subject,

An English statute, for the amendment of the law of evidence,(0 & 7 Vict. c. 85,) which provides that no person offered as a witness shallthereafter be excluded by reason of incapacity,

An English statute, for the amendment of procedure incriminal trials, (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18,) allowing counsel to sum up the evidence in criminalas in civil trials, provided the prisoner be

In French feudal law. A minute or act drawn up, on the creationof a fief, containing a description of the flef, and all the rights and Incidents belonging to It. Guyot, Inst.