Ballentine's Law Dictionary

(Spanish) Delivery according to contract.

A dispute.

(India) Robbery by a band of five or more. .

Payments to the justices of assize on the northern circuit as a defense fund against robbers.

Same as Dacker.

A fee paid into court on the recovery of damages.

While doing damage.

Loss; compensation for legal injury. See 19 Ann. Cas. (Wash.) 1199.

A baronet’s wife.

To cancel; to condemn.

Damages.

Condemned; illegal.

To injure; to cause loss.

An action for intentional injury to another’s beast.

An encumbered inheritance.

Loss; harm.

Damage without violation of a legal right. See 113 Mo. 308, 35 Am. St. Rep. 706, 18 L. R. A. 339, 2G S. W. 658.

There can be no damage without the violation of a legal right.

Inevitable loss.

Threatened damage.

Loss through payment by mistake of law.

Damage without violation of a legal right See 81 N. J. L. 53B, 35 L. R. A. (N. S.) 338, 80 Atl. 327.

There can be damage without violation of a legal right.

An English customs permit for the removal of goods from the warehouse.

An annual English tax to finance fighting the Danes.

Same as Danelaw.

English law where the Danes had settled; that part of England once occupied by the Danes.

An ancient duty which the tenant paid for leave to till the soil at certain seasons.

One capable of producing death or great bodily harm. See 17 Or. 300, 11 Am. St. Rep. 830, 20 Pac. 625.

Perils of navigation which are beyond human control. See 33 N. J. L. 543.

A usurious loan.

(Spanish) Damage.

In.

Giving and retaining in one’s possession gives nothing.

A court officer with functions of a steward.

Handcuffs.

To transfer.

To convey in fee.

Same as Darrein.

A celebrated English case (1627) sustaining the defendant’s refusal to subscribe to a forced loan.

Same as Deraign.

Last.

The last continuance.

The last presentation.

A tenant’s plea in a writ of right. See 3 Met. (Mass.) 184, 37 Am. Dec. 130.

A case holding a corporate charter to be a contract between a corporation and the state. See 4 Wheat. (U. S.) 518-, 4 L. Ed. 629.

Plural of Datum.

(French) The date of recording an instrument.

A dation.

An accord and satisfaction in property. (Not in money.)

An appointment, as to an office; a giving in fulfillment of a duty.

Same as Datio in solutum.

That which one may give or appoint to; given or appointed; removal at pleasure.

Give your property while it is yours; after death it will not be yours.

That which is delivered; executed; a date.

It is given to the more worthy.

A French king’s eldest son.

The period between one midnight and. the next. See 52 La. Ann. 936, 78 Am. St. Rep. 364, 49 L. R. A. 218, 27 South. 566.

An account-book of original entry of transactions as they occur.

An opportunity to appear and to be heard in court. See 71 Vt. 457, 76 Am. St. Rep. 787, 45 Atl. 1035.

A court order permitting a prisoner a day out of prison.

Days set by law for the return of writs or for appearance in court after service.

An arbiter.

Days after the due date of negotiable paper within which it may be paid; the three days after the return day of a writ within which the person served might appear. See llo U. S. 37

The period between sunrise and sunset when one can see another’s features by daylight. See 9 Mass. 154.

A quantity of land plough-able in one day.

De bene esse.

De bonis non.

Days after date.

From; of; concerning; among.

A priest’s assistant.

Of acquiring the control of things.

The sum paid for the empty portion of a ship by a charterer. See 3 Brit. Rul. Cas. 266.

Same as Mortmain.

A passenger traveling on a free pass. See 61 N. C. 21.

Born dead; still-born.

An unenforced law; an undelivered letter sent to the dead letter office.

A line which a military prisoner may not cross without liability of being shot.

Anything with which death can be easily and readily produced. See 146 Mo. 6, 9 Am. St. Rep. 598, 47 S. W. 892.

(Scotch) Personal property which he could dispose of by will.

For adjustment or settlement.

A writ for the admeasurement of dower.

A writ commanding a bishop to admit a duly appointed clerk to a living.

Pay of dead soldiers and sailors wrongfully collected.

A mortgage; the property mortgaged.

Rent beyond royalty in a mine lease.

Same as Dead man’s part.

A future use.

By advice of our counsel.

In equity.

A writ to determine the majority of the heir of a tenant in capite.

To take from a forest its character as such and thus to remove it from forest law.

Concerning gamblers.

One who buys and sells.

A writ for making an allowance.

Of high and low; fully; completely.

Concerning bribery.

The president of a bar association; an ecclesiastical title. See 34 La. Ann. 596.

The council of a bishop.

A writ of annual pension.