An inofficious (undu- tiful) gift; a gift of so great a part of thedonor’s property that the birthright portion of his heirs is diminished. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A gift between the living. The ordinary kind of gift byone person to another. 2 Kent, Coram. 438; 2 Steph. Coram. 102. A term derived fromthe civil law. Inst. 2, 7, 2.

A gift made by a person in sickness, who, apprehending his dissolution near, delivers, or causes to be delivered, to another the possession of any personal goods, to keep as his own

A gift on account of marriage. In Romanlaw, the bridegroom’s gift to the bride in antipication of marriage and to secure her doswas called “donatio ante nuptias;” but by an ordinance of

In ecclesiastical law. A mode of acquiring a benefice by deed of gift alone, without presentation, institution, orinduction. 3 Steph. Comm. Si.In general. A gift. See DONATIO.

A donee; a person to whom a gift is made; a purchaser. Bract fol. 13, et seq.

The person on whom the king bestows his right to any forfeiture that has fallen to the crown.

Distinguished from “made.” “A ‘deed made’ may no doubt mean an ‘instrumentmade;’ but a ‘deed done’ is not an ‘instrument done,’

In old English law. He to whom lands were given; the party to whom a donatio was made.In later law. He to whom lauds or tenements are given in tail. Litt.

See DE DONIS, THE STATUTE.

In old English law. He by whom lands were given to another; the party making a donatio.In later law. He who gives lands or tenements to another in tail. Litt.

Lat. In the civil law. A gift; a free gift Calvin. Distinguished from munus. Dig. 50, 16, 194.

In Scotcu law. Judicial sentence, or judgment. The decision or sentence of acourt orally pronounced by an ollicer called a “dempster” or “deemster.” Iu modernusage, criminal sentences still end with the words

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. State v. McBeth, 49 Kan. 584, 31 Pac. 145.

Literally, sleeping; hence inactive; in abeyance; unknown ; concealed.

One which is in abeyance.

One which a creditor delivers to the sheriff with directions to levy only, and not to sell, until further orders, or until a junior execution is received.

One which has not been satisfied, nor extinguished by lapse of time, but which has remained so long unexecutedthat execution cannot now be issued upon it without first reviving the judgmentor one

See PARTNERS.

Lat. The back. In dorso recordi, on the back of the record. 5 Coke, 446.