De malo lecti

veniendi, villae: v. Essoin. De manucaptione: writ of mainprise. De manutenendo: a writ of maintenance. De me: v. A me. De medietate linguae: of half-tongue, a jury half natives, half aliens; v. Biling-uis. De medio: a writ of mesne. De melioribus damnis (for the better damages): a term applied to the election by a plaintiff, who has had the damages assessed severally against the defendants, of one defendant against whom he will proceed while he enters a nol. pros, as to the others. De meroatoribus (of merchants): the statute of Acton Bwrnel, 11 Edw. I., 1233, and the statute 13 Edw. I., st. 3, which established the recognizance by statute merchant. De minimis non curat lex: the law not itself about trifles. De modo decimanhominis nulla est cunctatio longa: no delay is long. De non apparentibus bus eadem est ratio: the rule as to pear is the same as the rule as to things non decimando (of not paymg tithes) entirely discharged of tithes. De novo De odio et atia (by hatred and malice) as of course and gratis, similar in purpose which lay for a person imprisoned on manding the sheriff to inquire whether suspicion against him. If it was found odio et atia, or that he committed the infortunium, a writ of tradas in ballium ing the sheriff to admit him to bad if and lawful men of the county as pro rata portionis: a writ for a joint mon, distrained for more than his share other tenants proportionately. De pace for keeping the peace and good behavior. of breach of the peace and wounds, a So De pace et roberia (robbery) or prisonment). De pace infracta: of parco fracto: a writ of pound breach,. enda: a writ for making partition of common, joint tenants, or coparceners. facienda: a writ to ascertain the placito: of a plea, in an action. clearly; by covin; forthwith. De plegiis for a surety, who has been compelled principal. De pone: a writ of Pone. a writ of Post disseisin. De praesenti of the present. De proprietate the sheriff to inquire by inquest into distrained. De quibus sur disseisin De quodam ignoto: from a certain raptu heeredis: a writ for a guardian who abducted his ward. De raptu maids, kind of criminal appeal. De as to the death of a man et non ezistentithings which do not apwhich do not exist. De: a prescription to be: anew, a second time.: an old writ, issuing to the habeas corpus, charge of homicide comthere was just cause of that he was accused de deed se defendendo, or per might issue commandhe could find twelve good mainpernors. De onerando tenant or tenant in comof the rent, to charge the et legalitate tuenda: De pace et plagis: kind of criminal appeal. imprisonamento (imbreach of. the peace. De De partitione facilands held by tenants in De perambulatione boundaries of lands. De De piano: summarily; acquietaudis: a writ to pay a debt, against his De post disseisina:: for the present, as probanda: a writ directing the ownership of goods: an old writ of entry. person unknown. De in tenure against one virginum: of the rape of rationabili parte bonothe wife and children of a his personal property which county customs, bequeath parte: a writ of right for ing the entire possession. recto de advooatione: de dote: writ of right of of right. De recto [brevej De redisseisina: writ of replevin.. De resoussu: beudo: to have a return, plevin. De rigore juris: writ of safeguard. De duct. De scutagio habendo tenants by knight's service De se bene gereudo: for molendinum: a ^yrit to plaintifC's mill as by custom. service; v. Essoin.. De like, things the same judgment catorio: a writ of statute of statute staple. De surcharge of pasture. De sedeas. De tempore cujus, pore in tempus et ad and at all times. De terra De theolonio: a writ to writ of trespass. De ultra De una parte: unilateral, himself. De uxore rapta cover damages for the abduction of waste. De ventre a writ which a presumptive the widow was pregnant or nancy of a woman sentenced word for word. De warrantia chartse: a writ fendant in assize or other man deceased to recover the thirds of he could not, by common law, or away from them. De ratiouabili one coparcener against another usurp- De recto: writ of right. De writ of right of adoaieson. De recto dower. De recto de&cere: to fail patens: the patent writ of right. redisseisin, De replegiare: writ of writ of rescous. De retoruo haa judgment for the defendant in reby strict law. De salva guardia: salvo conductu: writ of safe-eon-: a writ to recover escuage from who failed to serve the Kuig in war. his good behavior. De secta ad enforce one to continue grinding at the De servitio regis: for the King's similibus idem est judicandum: of is to be made. De statute mermerchant. De statute stapulse: writ superoneratione pastures: a writ of supersedendo: a writ of superetc.: v. A tempore, etc. De temomnia tempera: from time to time sancta: of the holy land; v. Essoin. recover toU. De transgressione: a mare: of beyond sea; v. Essoin. a deed where one party only binds et abducta,: a writ for a man to reof his wife. De vasto: a writ inspiciendo (for examining the belly): heir might have to examine whether not; a writ to examine into the pregto death. De verbo in verbum: vicineto: from the neighborhood. De of warranty of charter, given a deaction, where he could not vouch to war- De warrantia custodiae: a ■writ for one lands in knight-service, or his heir, against ing them free of wardship, or his lieir, claimed by a third party. De vrarrautia default where a man had a day given him to was absent on service of the King. Oe./r. Of; about; from; concerning; out to; on; with. De bone memorie (of sound mind. De comon droit: at common riglit. De comes et de bouche (witli expression applied to hue and cry. De collateral. De oy en avant: from now faute de droit: for failurerof right; an law. De droit: de jure. De fine force De haut en bas: of high and low, a term ited power of taxation enjoyed by a lord. V. Dower. De mot en mot: word for memorie: of unsound mind. De pleine De ques en ga: from. which time until which, wherewith. De rien culpable: son tort demesne sans tiel cause: of out such cause; v. De injuria sua, &c. De not pour auter vie. De son done: by his of his own accord. De temps dont memorie from time of which memory runneth not A tempore.

Lat. [L. Fr. de mat de Igt.] Of infirmity or illness of [in] bed. A species of essoin or excuse for non appearance in court, formerly allowed a defendant in England, and more anciently called de infirmitate de reseantisa; the excuse being that the defendant was confined to his house in bed {lectus) by infirmity or indisposition, {malum.) Glanv. lib. 1, c. 18, 19. Bract, fol. 337, 344 b. Britt. c. 122, 123. 1 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 115, 412. See Malum lecti. This essoin commonly followed immediately upon that de malo veniendi (infra); for where a person having been detained on the road by sickness, and having cast the essoin de malo veniendi had found himself obliged to return home, the order of essoins, conformably with what was likely to be the real fact, led to the essoin de malo lecti. 1 Reeves* Hist. 412. Bract, fol. 344 b.