Demi-Mark

Demy-mark. [L. Lat. dimidxa marca.^ In old English practice. Half a mark; a sum of money of the value of six shillings and eight pence, the tender of which was formerly necessary in a writ of right; the effect of such tender being to put the demandant, in the first instance, upon proof of the seisin as stated in his count, that is, to prove that the seisin was in the king's reign there stated. Boscoe*s Real Act, 216. 2 Bl. Com. Appendix, No. I. sect. 6. F. N. B. 5 M. Holt's N. P. Cos. 657. See Cowell, voc. Half-mark. According to Mr. Reeves, it was something given to obtain the favor of a trial by the grand assise. 1 Reeves' Hist, 429, 480.

See Mark.