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DEMOBILIZATION

In military law. The dismissal of an army or body of troops from active service.

DEMOCRACY

That form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens; as distinguished from a monarchy,aristocracy, or oligarchy. According to the theory

DEMONETIZATION

The disuse of a particular metal for purposes of coinage. The withdrawal of the value of a metal as mouey.

DEMONSTRATIO

Lat. Description; addition; denomination. Occurring often in the phrase, “Falsa demonstratio non nocct,” (a false description does not harm.)

DEMONSTRATION

Description; pointing out. That which is said or written todesignate a thing or person.In evidence. Absolutely convincing proof. That proof which excludes all possibility oferror. Treadwell v. Whittier, 80 Cal. 574. 22

DEMPSTER

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

DEMURRABLE

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.

DEMURRANT

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

DEMURRAGE

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

DEMURRER

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

DEMURRER ORE TENUS

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

DENARII

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

DENARIUS

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,

DENARIUS DEI

(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

DENIAL

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;

DENIER

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.

DENIER A DIEU

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.)

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