DEMEMBRATION
In Scotch law. Maliciously cutting off or otherwise separating one limb from another. 1 Hume, 323; Bell.
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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.
In old records. A half or moiety.
In some universities and colleges this term is synonymous with “scholars.”
In the civil law. A taking away; loss or deprivation. See CAPITIS DEMINUTIO.
v. In conveyancing. To convey or create an estate for years or life; tolease. The usual and operative word in leases: “Have granted, demised, and to farm let,and by these presents do
In conveyancing. Mutual leases made from one party toanother on each side, of the same land, or something out of it; as when A. grants a lease to B.at a nominal rent,
The natural dissolution of the king is generally so called; an expression which signifiesmerely a transfer of property. By demise of the crown we mean only that, inconsequence of the disunion of
In English practice. In the action of ejectment, it was formerly customary, in case there were any doubt as to thelegal estate being in the plaintiff, to insert in the declaration several
A declaration in ejectment might containeither one demise or several. When it contained only one, it was called a “declarationwith a single demise.”
Lat I have demised or leased. Demisi, eoneessi, et ad flnnam tradidi; havedemised, granted, and to farm let. The usual operative words in ancient leases, as thecorresponding English words are in the