DITTAY
In Scotch law. A technical term iu civil law, signifying the matter of chargeor ground of indictment against a person accused of crime. Talcing up dittay isobtaining informations and presentments of crime
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In Scotch law. A technical term iu civil law, signifying the matter of chargeor ground of indictment against a person accused of crime. Talcing up dittay isobtaining informations and presentments of crime
Various, several, sundry; a collective term grouping a number of unspecifiedpersons, objects, or acts. Com. v. Butts, 124 Mass. 452; State v. Hodgson, 66Vt. 134, 28 Atl. 1089; Munro v. Alaire, 2
A turning aside or altering the natural course of a thing. The term ischiefly applied to the unauthorized changing the course of a water-course to the prejudiceof a lower proprietor. Merritt v.
A treatise on courts and their jurisdiction, written inFrench in the reign of Edward III. as is supposed, and by some attributed to Fitzherbert.It was first printed in 1525, and again in
In criminal pleading. A plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, allegingthat he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is immediately impaneledto try the collateral issue
Lat. With a different vtow, purpose, or design; in a differentview or point of view; by a different course or process. 1 W. Bl. 89; 4 Kent, Comm. 211, note.
To turn aside; to turn out of the way; to alter the course of things. Usuallyapplied to water-courses. Ang. Water- Courses,
In the practice of the English chancery division, “dives costs” are costs onthe ordinary scale, as opposed to the costs formerly allowed to a successful pauper suingor defending in forma pauperis, and
Equivalent to devest, (q. v.)
A fact by means of which a right is divested, terminated, orextinguished; as the right of a tenant terminates with the expiration of his lease, andthe right of a creditor is at
A fund to be divided. The share allotted to each of several persons entitledto share in a division of profits or property. Thus, dividend may denote a fund setapart by a corporation
One paid on the preferred stock of a corporation; a dividend paid to one classof shareholders in priority to that paid to another. Chaffee v. Railroad Co., 55 Vt 129;Taft v. Railroad
One paid in scrip, or in certificates of the ownership of a corresponding amount of capital stock of thecompanv thereafter to be issued. Bailey v. Railroad Co., 22 Wall. 604, 22 L.
A phrase used by stock brokers,meaning that a sale of corporate stock does not carry with it the seller’s right to receivehis proportionate share of a dividend already declared aud shortly payable.
Eat To diviue; to conjecture or guess; to foretell. Divinatio, aconjecturing or guessing.Divinatio, non interpretatio est, quae oninino recedit a litera. That is guessing, notinterpretation, which altogether departs from the letter. Bac.
As distinguished from those of human origin, divine laws are those ofwhich the authorship is ascribed to God, being either positive or revealed laws or thelaws of nature. Mayer v. Probe, 40
Divine service was the name of a feudal tenure, by which thetenants were obliged to do some special divine services in certain; as to sing so manymasses, to distribute such a sum
In old English law. A device, award, or decree; also a devise; also boundsor limits of division of a parish or farm, etc. Cowell. Also a court held ou the boundary,in order
That which is susceptible of being divided.
One which is in its nature and purposes susceptible of division andapportionment, having two or more parts in respect to matters and things contemplatedand embraced by it, not necessarily dependent on each