DETAINMENT
This term Is used In policies of marine insurance, in the clauserelating to “arrests, restraints, and detainments.” The last two words are construed asequivalents, each meaning the effect of superior force operating
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This term Is used In policies of marine insurance, in the clauserelating to “arrests, restraints, and detainments.” The last two words are construed asequivalents, each meaning the effect of superior force operating
In the civil law. That con dition of fact under which one can exercise hispower over a corporeal thing at his pleasure, to the exclusion of all others. It forms thesubstance of
The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. See DETAINER.
is where a juvenile offender is sentenced to be sent to a reformatory school, to be there detained fora certain period of time. 1 Russ. Crimes, 82.
The decision of a court of justice. Shirley v. Birch, 16 Or. 1, 18Pac. 344; Henavie v. Railroad Co., 154 N. Y. 278, 48 N. E. 525. The ending or expirationof an
Lat. In the civil law. A summoning made, or notice given, in the presence of witnesses, (denuntiatio facta cum testatione.) Dig. 50, 16, 40.
Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. 1 Reeves, Eng. Law, 159.In
In practice. A form of action which lies for the recovery, in specie, ofpersonal chattels from one who acquired possession of them lawfully, but retains itwithout right, together with damages for the
A writ formerly available to a wife after a divorce, for the recovery of the goods given with her In marriage. Mozley & Whitley.
In pleading. An action of replevin is said to be in the detinuit when the plaintiff acquires possession of the propertyclaimed by means of the writ. The right to retain Is, of
To be torn In pieces by horses. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 37.
The removal of property from one state to another upon a transfer of the title to it by will or inheritance. Frederickson v. Louisiana, 23 How. 445, 16 L. Ed. 577.
Any loss or harm suffered in person or property; e. g
To discover or lay open to the world. Matt. Westm. 1240.
Lat In the Roman law. A division of the as, containing eleven uncice or duodecimal parts; theproportion of eleven-twelfths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note. See As.Dens solns heeredem faoere potest, non homo.
The act, or condition, of one who marries a wife after the death of a former wife.
An offender without sureties or pledges. Cowell.
Wasteful use of the property of a deceased person, as for extravagant funeral or other unnecessaryexpenses. 2 Bl. Comm. 508.
They have wasted. A term applied in old English law to waste byexecutors and administrators, and to the process issued against them therefor. Cowell.See DEVASTAVIT.
Lat He has wasted. The act of an executor or administrator in wastingthe goods of the deceased; mismanagement of the estate by which a loss occurs ; abreach of trust or misappropriation
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