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Demand Are

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. In old English practice. To demand.

Toums, PL 63.

See Demanda. To order or award; to direct a sentence to be carried into effect. Judicium executioni demandare; to order a judgment to be carried into execution; to enforce by execution. Bract, fol.

107, 175, 205 b, 303 b.

Latd sententid et executions demandata; sentence being passed and execution ordered. Id. fol.

108 b.

The word, in this sense, is derived from the Lat. rnxmiare. To give in charge, as to a jury. Deinandetur appears to have this sense in the following passage in the Statute of Marlbridge, c. 5: Et hoc coram justitiariis itinerantibusin 8uis iti TieribiLS, cum opusfueriiy demandetur. Lord Coke translates it " shall be inquired."