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

In Scotch law. Deposit or depositum, the species of bailment so called. Bell.

The testimony of a witness taken upon interrogatories, not in open court, but in pursuance of a commission to take testimony issued by a court, or under a general law on the

In Spanish law. Deposit; the species of bailment so called. Schtn. Civil Law, 193.

One who makes a deposit.

The place where a deposit (q. v.) is placed and kept. United States depositories. Banks selected and designated to receive deposits of the public funds of the United States are so called.

Lat. In the civil law. One of the forms of the contract of bailment,being a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the use of the bailor without reward.Foster v. Essex

In French law. The depositum of the Roman and the deposit of the Englishlaw. It is of two kinds, being either (1) d(p6t simply so called, and which may be eithervoluntary or

To defame; vilify; exhibit contempt for. In England it Is a criminal offenseto “deprave” the Lord’s supper or the Book of Common Prayer. Steph. Crim. Dig. 99.