A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I. In old English law. To demand to direct a sentence to be carried into effect; a jury.

I. fr. In old English law. To demand to call a party in court.

In Scots law. The crime of

I. One who is deprived of his mental lost his mind; one who does not think of what

demon tiers, I. fr. In the mean time;

I. fr. Own; one's own; lands held rectly by the lord, as distinguished from lands lands held in feudal tenure; bordlands. In English law. ' Demesne lands: lands of a in tenancy, bu

demy, fr. Half. V. Half-blood. In old English law. of money of the value of which was necessai-y

Demi-mark; half a mark; a sum of six shillings and eight pence, the tender in a writ of right.

I. In the civil V, Capitis deminutio.

That may be

Death; a conveyance monly, for years. same land, or something in favor of the person upon a merely nominal In English law. Demise tion of the sovereign, from his body politic, mise

To convey or

L I. In old English concessi, et ad iirmam let. The usual operative English words are in

I. I. In old Demissio coronae: a the king.

I. I In old to send away, or part

Half a vill. ions of England, — V. Vill.

demolire, I tio: a demolishing.

I Description addition, v. Falsa, etc. Demonstrative legacy. cific fund.

v. Demurrage.

2. To wait, or tur: he demurs.

demorier, demeigrne, Ifr. Detnesna Demeyncs: demesne Demi-sangne or deiny-sangue: half-blood.

dempstare, doomster. In Scots law. An officer of court, whose duty it was to pronounce the doom or sentence of the court V. Dome; Doom.

To wait or stay; to object in point of law, and rest or pause, referring the decision to the court; to object to the pleading of the opposite party as insufficient, and refer it to

demurrer, demenrer, I. fr. In old English law. To rest or stay; to abide or remain; in pleading, to abide or rest in law or judgment Demurt en abeyance: it rests or remains in abey

demorage. The detention of a vessel by the freighter, beyond the time allowed by the charter-party; the allowance for such detention.

A pausing or resting; a resting in the judgment of the law; a pleading at law which excepts or objects to the pleading of the opposite party, as being insufficient in law, and by w

dene, sax., Dena, I. I. In old English law. A valley, vale or dale; a hollow or low place among woods. Den and strond: liberty for ships or vessels to run aground, or come ashore.

denonnciation. In Scots son is declared a rebel, who has disobeyed ters of horning.

denariatas, L I. In old English law. The value or worth of a penny. Denarata reditus: a penny rent v. Denariatus.

/. In old English law. Pennies: pence; money in general.

1. 1. In old English law. A penny. Denarius Dei: Gtod's penny; earnest money, f orraex-ly given and received by the parties to contracts, to bind the contract so called because the

Z./r. In old English law. Denial;

In English law. The act of zen; Naturalization.

In English law. An alien born patent to make him, either permanently subject; a natural-born subject; one ance, and called the king's liegman.

I In old English law. titla Denominatio est a digniore: more worthy.

denunciare, I In old English summon. In the civil law. To give notice or warning,

dennuciatio, I. In old mons; a public notice.

In English law. Any personal mate, which was the immediate occasion sonable creature, and which was applied to pious uses, and distributed Abolished by statute 9 & 10 Vict., c. 63.

In pleading, to forsake or abandon former pleading, and assume a new one. In maritime law. To leave a port; to be In old English law. To divide or separate

departier, I. fr. To divide.

A parting from; a going away law of limitations, such an absence pends the power of the other party to donment of the ground of a former another; in marine insurance, deviation cou

In old English law. To pasture.

IL In old English law. A deputy.

To be performed only upon thing or act Dependent contract: a Deners, deneres, denerez, appromptes: money borrowed.; Peter penca refusal. making a denizen, v. Deni- -who has obtaine

Pending or undetermined; in progress.

2. 2. In old English law. To appoint, fix, or designate.

so. In Scots law. To depose; to make oath in writing.

One who deposes, that is, testifies or makes oath in writing to the truth of certain facts, v. Depose; Deposition.

I. In old English law. To put down or away; to pull down; to remove; to depose; to state under oath. In the civil law. To put or lay down; to deposit; to entrust to another to keep

t. In old English law. The crime of destroying, ravaging or laying waste a country.

In old English law. A species of waste by which the population of the kingdom was diminished.

I. In the civil law. A kind of banishment for life, attended with a loss of civil rights and the forfeiture of property, upon which the condemned person was sent or carried away to

Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights.

To state or testify under oath, in writing; to make a statement or give testimony under oath, which is reduced to writing; to make a statement which is reduced to writing and sworn

A species of bailment, derived from the civil law, and called also, after that law, depositum. v. Depositum.

The person with whom a thing is deposited to be kept for the depositor and returned on demand, without a recompense.

In Scots law. Deposit or depositum; the species of bailment so called.

I. In old English law. A deposition; the written testimony of a witness. In the civil law. The testimony of a witness.

Testimony taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before a judicial officer, in answer to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories, and usually subscribed by the witness

I. In the civil and common law. A bailment of goods, to be kept for the bailor without reward, and to be returned when he shall require it

In English ecclesiastical law. The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either by, sentence of the proper court, or in pursuance of

I. fr. Sinoa

To appoint or designate for a particular purpose. Now applied to persons only, but anciently to places, v. Deputare; Deputy.

A person authorized to act for another.

I. I. In old English law. To be discharged from giving gage or pledge.

dereyu, dereine. In old English law. To prove; to disprove; to deny or refuse.

I. I. To deraign. v. Deraign; Dirationare.

derechief, dericliefs, I, fr. Moreover; again.

Left, as land by retiring of the sea; cast away, abandoned, as goods thrown away; deserted, as a vessel at sea.

The abandonment of property; the gaining of land through the receding of water from its bed.

2. Derelict; wilfully abandoned or thrown away.

dereigner, dereyner, deraigner, dereiuer, derainer, I fr. To prove; to clear one's self; to deraign.

derictum, directum, drictnm, I. I. Right Derivativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva, I. A derivative power cannot be greater than the primitive or original.

A conveyance which presupposes some conveyance precedent, and serves only to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore or transfer the interest thereby granted.

I. In the civil and old English law. To derogate or diminish; to take from or impair the authority, validity or effect of a law or contract; to repeal a clause of a law. Derogatnr

Diminution or partial abrogation; the taking from or impairing the authority or effect of a law or contract.

I. fr. From. Des ke or que: from which time; since. Des kes a ore: from which time until now. Desadunqnes: from that time. Desmaintenant: from now; from henceforth. Desore, deshors

To pass immediately from one person to another by the operation of law, as to an heir on the death of his ancestor; strictly, to pass from the ancestor to the heir in the descendin

One who descends or is descended from another; a relative in the descending line.

I A descent (cast) "tolls the entry.

discent. Hereditary succession; succession to an estate by where he is a child or other issue. Descent east: a succession where the heir is the heir of an abator, disseisor or intr

descheur, I. fr. To fall out, to happen; to fall down. Descheu de sa plaint: falls from his plaint; that is, fails in it, or loses the benefit of it

I. I. Description of the person.

To leave or quit with an intention not to return; to forsake; to abandon.

The act of leaving or forsaking a service or duty, as service on board ship, or service in the army; the act of forsaking a person with whom one is legally bound to live, or for wh

I. L Whereas, in the sense of opposition; inasmuch as.

Purpose or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind.

/. Designation; specification. Designatio personsB: designation of the person. Designatio nnins personsB est exclusio alterius: the specification of one person is [or implies] the

In a will, may amount to a direction or command.

desoubes, I. fr. Under. Desoubes le seale: under the seal.

I. fr. Under; below. Desouth le petit seale: under the petty seal. Desouth nosmes: undernamed. Desouth serure: under lock.

Hopeless, without hope of recovery, — applied to debts considered worthless.

Despyte, despight, I fr. Contempt Despitz: contempts. V. Departure, etc.

I I. Contempt; a contemptible, or decrepid person.

The use of violence or of clandestine means to deprive a person of something that he possesses.

I. I. In old English law. To marry.

desus, desoaz, dessouz, desoz, I. fr. Under; underneath; hereafter.

destreyndre, I. fr. To distrain.

I. fr. Distress; process to compel an appearance; compulsion; the distri Qt or bailiwick of a sheriff, v. District.

As applied to a vessel, to unfit her for service beyond hope of recovery by ordinary means.