In old English law. A heriot paid only in arms, horses, or military accouterments.

In old European law. An army; an armed force. The term was absolutelyindefinite as to number. It was applied, on various occasions, to a gathering offorty-two armed men, of thirty-five, or even

To abdicate or resign ; to resign or surrender an estate, office, ordignity, by the symbolical delivery of a staff or rod to the alienee.

To break the peace; to commit open violence. Jacob.

In the civil law. Disinheriting ; disherison. The formal method ofexcluding an Indefeasible (or forced) heirfrom the entire inheritance, by the testator’s express declaration in the will that suchperson shall be exhccres.

In the civil law. One disinherited. Vicat; Du Cange.

In Scotch law. To disinherit; to exclude from an Inheritance.

v. To show or display; to offer or present for inspection. To produceanything iu public, so that it may be taken into possession. Dig. 10, 4, 2.To present; to offer publicly or

A complainant in articles of the peace. 12 Adol. & E. 509.

Lat Exhibition of a bill. In old English practice, actions wereinstituted by presenting or exhibiting a bill to the court, in cases where the proceedingswere by bill; hence this phrase is equivalent

In Scotch law. An action for compelling the production of writings.In ecclesiastical law. An allowance for meat and drink, usually made by religiousappropriators of churches to the vicar. Also the benefaction settled

Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previous lyburied therein, particularly a human corpse.

Demand, want, need, imperativeness.

In English law. An officer who makes out exigents.

L. Lat. In English practice. A judicial writ made use of inthe process of outlawry, commanding the sheriff to demand the defendant, (or causehim to be demanded, cxigi fa- ciat,) from county

That you cause to be demanded. The emphatic words of the Latinform of the writ of exigent. They are sometimes used as the name of that writ.

Denmndable; requirable.

Banishment; the person banished.

Lat. In old English law.(1) Exile; banishment from one’s country.(2) Driving away; despoiling. The name of a species of waste, which consisted in drivingaway tenants or vassals from the estate; as by

To live; to have life or animation; to be in present force, activity, or effect ata given time; as in speaking of “existing” contracts, creditors, debts, laws, rights, orliens. Merritt v. Grover,