(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

Lat In the civil law. A kind of banishment, where a condemnedperson was sent or carried away to some foreign country, usually to an Island, (in insulamdeportatur,) and thus taken out of

Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights. A punishment derived from the deportatio (q.v.) of the Roman law, and still in use in France.In

In practice. In ancient usage, to testify as a witness; to give evidenceunder oath. In modern usage. To make a deposition ; to give evidence in the shape of a deposition; to

A naked bailment of goods to be kept for the depositor without reward,and to be returned when he shall require it .Tones, Bailm. 30, 117; National Bank v.Washington County Bank, 5 Hun

The party receiving a deposit; one with whom anything is lodged intrust, as “depository” is the place where it is put. The obligation on the part of thedepositary is that he keep