Dehors

« From beyond; outside of: extraneous, extrinsic, foreign to, unconnected with; aliunde, q. v. Applied to something as evidence, outside of a. record, agreement, will, or other instrument. Thus, a judgment may be falsified, reversed, or 13 Bl. Com. 172; Wildy v. Bonney, 26 Miss. 89 (1853). * F. degr^: L. de-gradus, a step. Cf. Pedigree.

3 Webster's Diet. * 1 Bl. Com. 435. s State V. Mize, 36 Kan. 188 (1887); State u Evans, ib.

497 (1887). made void for a matter dehors the record,— that is, ■not apparent upon the face of it.' A matter dehors a record may be shown as groimd for a new trial.* When doubt arises as to meaning of the words of a written contract, or difficulty as to their application, the sense may be ascertained by evidence dehors the instrument itself.^