Dehors

Fr. Outof; without; beyond; foreign to; unconneeled with, Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 8 BI. Comm, 387.

« From beyond; outside of: extraneous, extrinsic, foreign to, unconnected with; aliunde, q. v. Applied to something as evidence, outside of a. record, agreement, will, or other instrument. Thus, a judgment may be falsified, reversed, or 13 Bl. Com. 172; Wildy v. Bonney, 26 Miss. 89 (1853). * F. degr^: L. de-gradus, a step. Cf. Pedigree. 3 Webster's Diet. * 1 Bl. Com. 435. s State V. Mize, 36 Kan. 188 (1887); State u Evans, ib. 497 (1887). made void for a matter dehors the record,— that is, ■not apparent upon the face of it.' A matter dehors a record may be shown as groimd for a new trial.* When doubt arises as to meaning of the words of a written contract, or difficulty as to their application, the sense may be ascertained by evidence dehors the instrument itself.^

Fr. Out of; without; beyond; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 2 £L Com. SSI. See Jffors.

Out of; without. By this word is understood something out of the record, agreement, will, or other thing spoken of; something foreign to the matter in question. DEL CREDERE; contracts. -A del credere commission is one under which the agent, in consideration of an additional premium, engages to insure to his principal, not only the solvency of the debtor, but the punctual discharge of the debt; and he is liable in the first instance without any demand from the debtor. 6 Bro. P.-C. 287; Beawes, 429; 1 T. Rep. 112; Paley on Agency, 39. If the agent receive the amount of sales and remit the amount to the principal by a bill of exchange he is not liable if it should be protested. 2