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

(L. Lat. Deo dandum, a thing to be given to God.) In English law. Anypersonal chattel which was the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonablecreature, and which was forfeited to

In old English law. The hedge inclosing a deer park.

In pleading. To forsake or abandon the ground assumed in a formerpleading, and assume a new one. See DEPARTURE.In maritime law. To leave a port; to be out of a port. To

1. One of the territorial divisions of a country. The term is chieflyused in this sense in France, where the division of the country into departments Issomewhat analogous, both territorially and for

In maritime law. A deviation from the course prescribed in the policy of insurance.In pleading. The statement of matter in a replication, rejoinder, or subsequentpleading, as a cause of action or defense,

A robbing of the prince or commonwealth; an embezzling of thepublic treasure.

Deriving existence, support, or direction from another; conditioned, inrespect to force or obligation, upon an extraneous act or fact.

One which depends or is conditional upon another. One which itis not the duty of the contractor to perform until some obligation contained in the sameagreement has been performed by the other

In practice. Pending or undetermined; in progress. See 5 Coke, 47.

In Spanish-American law. Spaces of ground In towns reserved for commonsor public pasturage. 12 Pet 443, note, 9 L. Ed. 1150.

In Scotch practice. To depose ; to make oath In writing.

In practice. One who deposes (that is, testifies or makes oath In Writing) to the truth of certain facts; one who gives under oath testimony which is reduced to writing; one who

In old Scotch practice. A deponent 3 How. State Tr. 695.

In old English law. The crime of destroying, ravaging, or laying waste a country. 2 Hale, P. C.333; 4 Bl. Comm. 373.

In old English law. A species of waste by which the population ofthe kingdom was diminished. Depopulation of houses was a public offense. 12 Coke,30, 3L