Law Dictionary

The first section of these regulations gives the authority to governors (gefe politico) to grant vacant lands… By the 4th section, the governor being thus informed may 'accede or n

non potest esse liaeres, I One blood wanting, he cannot be heir.

Writ for acquitting or releasing pledges. A writ that lay for a surety, against him for whom he had become surety for the payment of a certain sum of money at a certain day, where

L In the civil law. Definition; exposition; the explanation of a thing, including, as within a circumscribed line or limit, everything pertaining to it; theestablishmentof a genera

The act by which a woman is deprived of her virginity. When this is done unlawfully and against her will, it bears the name of "rape" (q. V.); when she consents, it is "fornication

The term “defoliant” means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission.

The oldest writer on the law of France. JEsprit des Lois, liv. 28, c. 38. Pierre Desfontaines published, about the year 1263, a work on the French law of custom, comparing it with

In English Law. To withhold wrongfully; to.withhold the possession of lands from one who is lawfully entitled to them. 3 Bl. Comm. 172. In Scotch Law. To resist the execution of th

The holding any lands or tenements to which another has a right. In its most extensive sense, the term includes any withholding of any lands or tenements to which another person ha

In Scotch law. The opposition or resistance made to messengers or other public officers while they are actually engaged in the exercise of their offices. Ersk. Inst. b. 4, tit. 4,

Same as Deforciant.

Fr. To deforce. LiU. sect. 614.

Same as Deforciant.

One who wrongfully

To withhold lands or tenements from the rightful owner. This is a word of art which cannot be supplied by any other word. Co. Litt. 331b; 3 Thomas, Co. Litt. 3; Bracton, lib. 4, 23

L. Lat In old English law. A distress, distraint or seizure of goods for satisfaction of a lawful debt Cowell.

Fr. To oppose or obstruct. Kelham.

See Charta de Foresta .

Writ of forfeiture of marriage. Reg. Orig. 163, 164.

A writ of forfeiture of marriage. Reg. Orig. 163, 164

The punishment of being buried alive.

Concerning those that break prison. The title of St. 1 Edw. IL, ordaining that none from thenceforth who broke prison should have taken and imprisoned required such a judgment if h

something different in § 1341 (first enacted in 1872) than what it means in § 371 (first enacted in 1867).

In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.

In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.

Privation by fraud.

it is used in connection with the words 'cheating or swindling,' indicating that it is to be construed in the manner in which those words are ordinarily used, as relating to the fr

(Law Fr.) To flee from; to run away; to elope. Kelham. Defuiaunt; running away. Defuont; run away. Apres ceo que el avera defuy son baron; after she shall have eloped from her husb

Deceased; a deceased person. D EG ASTER (Law Fr.) To waste. Deflros*, degaste, degata, wasted, destroyed. Kelham.

In Practice. In default of the representatives and creditors to administer to the estate of an intestate, the officer entitled to grant letters of administration may grant to such

Lat. Dead. "Defunctus sine prole," dead without (leaving) issue,

Of theft. One of the kinds of criminal appeal formerly in use in England. 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 40.

Lat. To beat with a club or stick; (fustigare.) Spelman.

For the future.

I. fr. To give security; to deliver on gage or security.

To waste.

Of behavior and reputation. An old writ which lay in cases where a person's conduct and reputation were impeached. Lambard, Eiren. lib. 4, c. 14.

In ecclesiastical law. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of the holy orders which he had as a priest or deacon. DEGREE (Fr. degre, from Lat. gradus, a step in a stairway;

A term for waste in the French law.

See Cmminatb; Libbl, Sj Reinstate; Kehabilitate; Slander. DEGrREE.^ One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward; grade. ^ 1. A remove in the line of relationship. Levit

Sinking or lowering a person in the estimation of the public. As to compelling a witness to answer questions tending to degrade him, see Witness; 13 Howell, St. Tr. 17, 334; 16 id.

Of grace or favor; by favor. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 57, § 11. De speciali gratia, of special grace or favor. Id. DE GRATIA SPECIALI CERTA SCIENtia et mero motu, talis clausula non vaiet

1 Coke, 53. The clause "ot our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion," is of no avail in those things in which it is presumed that the prince was ignorant.

Of special favor, certain knowledge and mere motion, is worthless in those matters in which the prince is presumed to be ignorant.

The term “degreased wool” means wool from which the bulk of impurities has been removed by processing.

The grade of a crime according to its gravity.

In the canon law, we reckon by the number of steps from the person farthest from the common ancestor to him; in the civil law, we reckon by the number of steps from one person up t

The theory that there are three degrees of negligence, described by the terms slight, ordinary, and gross, has been introduced into the common law from some of the commentators on

Tithes are not given from entire trees, but they are given from cut wood.

2 Rolle, 123. Of whole trees, tithes are not given; but of wood cut to be used, tithes are given.

In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from England. (1 Hen. V. ce, 7, 8.) Wharton. ———

A writ to deliver the heir to another who has the custody of the land.

A writ to deliver the heir to the custodian of the land.

A writ whereby a guardian recovered his abducted ward.

A writ to burn a heretic.

Breve. Writ for making an allowance. An eld writ directed to the lord treasurer and barons of the exchequer, for allowing certain officers (as collectors of customs) in their accou

Of high and low.

Disinheritance.

In French law. <A clause commonly inserted in policies of marine insurance, equivalent to a license to touch and trade at intermediate ports. 14 Wend. 491.

A writ which lay for a guardian who had been forcibly ejected from his wardship. Reg, Orig. 162.

A writ for respiting or postponing homage. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 269 (A). DE HOIVIINE CAPTO IN WITHERNAiVI (Lat. for taking a man in withernam). A try beyond the reach of a writ of rep

A writ to take in withernam one who had taken a bondman out of the country.

DO. Vide Homine Replegiando. —

A writ to take one out of the sheriff’s custody on giving security.

Outside of; disconnected with.

Writ for delivering an heir to him who has wardship of the land. A writ directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of him that was ward to another to deliver him to

Writ concerning an heir ravished and carried away. A writ which anciently lay for a lord who, having by right the wardship of his tenant under age, could not obtain his body, the s

(Lat. For burning a heretic.) A writ which lay where a heretic had been convicted of heresy, had abjured, and had relapsed into heresy. It is said to be very ancient. Fitzh. Nat. B

For good behavior; for good abearance.

For be having himself well; for his good behavior. Yelv. 90, 154.

Fr. To owe; ought. Kelham.

Lat. He detains. In old English law. A species of action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them. 1 Reeves, Eng. Law, 159. In pleadi

The term “dehumidifier” means a self-contained, electrically operated, and mechanically encased assembly consisting of— (A) a refrigerated surface (evaporator) that condenses moist

H>£RES LEGITIMU8 (Lat.). A lawful heir, being a legitimate child of parents who were married. HyERE8 NATU8 (Lat.). An heir who is such by birth or descent. This is the only form of

In mereantile law. A phrase borrowed from the Italians, equivalent toour word “guaranty” or “warranty,” or the Scotch term “warrandice;” an agreement by which a factor, when he sel

The term “de-identified” means the process by which all information that is likely to establish the identity of the specific persons or entities noted in the reports, data, or othe

A writ which lay for one arrested in a personal action, and committed to prison under a mistake as to his identity, the proper defendant bearing the same name. Reg. Orig. 194. DE I

An Old common-law writ, long obsolete, to inquire whether a man be an idiot or not. 2 Steph. Comm. 509.

A writ to inquire into one’s alleged idiocy.

By the grace of God.

Of those who are to be put on assizes. The title of a statute passed 21 Edw. I., defining the qualifications of jurors. Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 167, 189; 2 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 18

(Saxon) Trial by ordeal.

Of increase.

Of infirmity. The principal essoin in the time of Glanville; afterwards called "de malo." 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 115. See "De Malo"; Essoin."

A writ of enjkry. Bracton, fols. 318, 319. Reg. Orig. 227b, 231, 235-237; Cowell. DE INJURIA (Lat.) The full form is de injuria sua propria absque tali causa, of his own wrong with

A plea in excuse or justification, an abbreviation of de injuria propria sua, etc.

By his own fault, without the rest of the alleged cause.

By his own fault, without such cause.

Concerning an inoificious or undutiful will. A title of the civil law. Dig. 6, 2; Inst. 2, 18.

Concerning an inoflicious or undutiful will. A title of the civillaw. Inst. 2, 18.

See Actio de in rem verso.

Anew; a second time. 1 Vern. 223, 232. As it was before. 5 Maule & S. 222.

A writ of intrusion; where a stranger entered after tl.e death of the tenant, to the injury of the icvisioner. Reg. Orig. 233b.

A writ of intrusion; where a stranger entered after the death of the tenant, to the injury of the reversioner. Reg. Orig. 233b.

He owes.

In Spanish law. A general term applicable to the surrender of his property to his creditors by an insolvent; the renunciation of an inheritance; the release of a mortgage upon paym

For avoiding a loss. A phrase applied to a defendant, as de lucro captando is to a plaintiff. I Litt. (Ky.) 61.

Fr. [from Lat. d^icere, q. v J To cast off, or out; to throw down. L. Fr. Diet. Kelham;

A taking of a solemn oath. DEL BIEN ESTRE (Law Fr.; Law Lat. de bene esse). In old English practice. Of well being; of form. Britt. c. 39.

Lat. In the civil law. To eject or cast out; to dispossess or deprive of possession. Dig. 43. 16. 1. Inst. 4. 15. 6. This term is used by Bracton indifferently with the more modem