Juridical days; useful or available days. A term of the Roman law,used to designate those especial days occurring within the limits of a prescribed periodof time upon which it was lawful, or

A general legislative assembly is sometimes so called on the continent of Europe.In Scotch practice. The sitting of a court An appearance day. A day fixed for the trialof a criminal cause.

A day’s Journey; a day’s work; a day’s expenses.

In Scotch law. The days within which parties in civil and criminal prosecutions are cited to appear. Bell.

Fr. God and my right The motto of the royal arms of England, first assumed by Richard I.

To destroy; to disfigure or deface.

In an agreement for submission to arbitration, “difference” meansdisagreement or dispute. Fravert v. F’esler, 11 Colo. App. 387, 53 Pac. 288; PioneerMfg. Co. v. Phcenix Assur. Co., 106 N. C. 28, 10

For the meaning of the phrase “difficult and extraordinary case,” asused in New York statutes and practice, see Standard Trust Co. v. New York, etc., R.Co., 178 N. Y. 407, 70 N.

Second marriage; marriage to a second wife after the death ofthe first, as “bigamy,” in law, is having two wives at once. Originally, a man whomarried a widow, or married again after

A collection or compilation, embodying the chief matter of numerous booksin one, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement,for facility in reference.As a legal term, “digest” is

Digests. One of the titles of the Pandects of Justinian. Inst, proem,

The ordinary name of the Pandects of Justinian, which are now usuallycited by the abbreviation “Dig.” instead of “Ff.,” as formerly. Sometimes called “Digest,”in the singular.

Has been held as synonymous with “excavating,” and not confined to theremoval of earth. Sherman v. New York, 1 N. Y. 316.

In canon law. A person holding an ecclesiastical benefice or dignity,which gave him some pre-eminence above mere priests aud canons. To this class exclusivelybelonged all bishops, deans, archdeacons, etc.; but it now

In English law. An honor; a title, station, or distinction of honor. Dignitiesare a species of incorporeal hereditaments, in which a person may have a property orestate. 2 Bl. Comm. 37; 1

Judicial decision or determination

A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the incumbentsuffers any edifices of his ecclesiastical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by

Tending or intended to cause delay or to gain time or to put off a decision.

In chancery practice. One the object of which is to dismiss,suspend, or obstruct the suit, without touching the merits, until the impediment orobstacle insisted on shall be removed. 3 Bl. Comm. 301,

A class of defenses at common law, founded on some matter of fact not connected with themerits of the case, but such as might exist without impeaching the right of action itself.They