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.

An act or thing is “denounced” when the law declares it a crime andprescribes a punishment for it. State v. De Hart, 109 La. 570, 33 South. 605. The wordis also used

(Otherwise called “burn-beating.”) A method of improvingland by casting parings of earth, turf, and stubble into heaps, which when dried areburned into ashes for a compost. Cowell.

The act of present payment.

In Spanish law. The denouncement of a new work; being a proceeding to restrain theerection of some new work, as, for instance, a building which may, If completed, Injuriouslyaffect the property of

In the civil law. The act by which an individual informs apublic officer, whose duty It Is to prosecute offenders, that a crime has beencommitted. In Scotch practice. The act by which