Destruere
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. To destroy. JVWlus liber homjo capiatur — aui aliquo modo destruatur; no freeman shall be taken — or in any manner destroyed. Magna Charta, c.
29.
Lord Coke construes destroyed to mean, forejudged of life or limb, disherited or put to torture or death.
2 Inst. 48.
Every oppression against law by color of any usurped authority is a kind of destruction. Id, ibid.