Law Dictionary

one who has violated a law of the state or an ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision thereof.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “delinquent tax debt” means an outstanding debt under this title for which a notice of lien has been filed pursuant to section 6323, but th

Lat. [from de, and linquere, to leave.] To omit a duty; to neglect or fail to perform a required act. Calvin Lex. Jurid. Hence the English delinquent. To offend or transgress. Henc

I. fr. Out of; beyond; foreign to. Dehors the record: foreign to the record.

A mental state, produced by bodily disease wherein the mind acts without direction of the power of volition. See 1 Bland’s Ch. (Md.) 370, 17 Am. Dec. 311.

A fever accompanied with delirium.

Delirium brought about by continued and excessive intoxication. See 31 Tex. Cr. Rep. 318, 37 Am. St. Rep. 811, 18 L. R. A. 421, 20 S. W. 744.

In Spanish law. Crime; a crime, offense, or delict. White, New Recop. bk. 2, tit. 19, c. 1, § 4.

8 Transfer of the body or substance; surrender of physical possession or control; tradition. Opposed, non-delivery. To "deliver" is to give or transfer anything to another person.

inter alia, to "disburden (a women) of the foetus"); Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1993) ("[D]elivery" means "the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membran

In practice. A term used by the clerk in court to every prisoner who is arraigned and pleads not guilty, to whom he wishes a good deliverance. In modern practice this is seldom use

received by the purchaser or by any carrier * * * for shipment to the purchaser' during March, 1942

Fr. To deliver. Britt. fol. 2 b.

the line-haul carrier making ultimate delivery.

The delivery contemplated by the contract was a transfer of the property into the power and possession of the consignees. The surrender of possession by the master must be attended

In the contract of sale. The act by which the seller of a thing transfers it to the hands or possession of the buyer or his agent, or places it within his control or power, or suff

A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which, delivery is essential, and delivery is not complete, without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered;

An obligation for the return of goods or the payment of their value, taken into the possession of the law, as in seizures under revenue laws. Douglass v. Douglass, 21 Wall. (U. B.)

A bond given upon the seizure of goods (as under the revenue laws) conditioned for their restoration to the defendant, or the payment of their value, if so adjudged.

The delivery of a deed is essential to the transfer of the title. It is the final act, without which all other formalities are ineffectual. To constitute such delivery the grantor

if a deed be delivered to a stranger, for the use of the grantee, without any condition annexed, making it an escrow, it is a delivery to the grantee.

The execution and registration of a deed, and delivery of it to the register for that purpose, does not vest the title in the grantee.

The questions whether the instrument ever became a deed; whether it was delivered as an escrow, whose completion depended on subsequent events, which never happened, or was a compl

By this proceeding—called in the language of the country the delivery of juridical possession—the land granted was separated from the public domain, and what was previously a grant

An order addressed in England, by the owner of goods to a person holding them on his behalf, requesting him to deliver them to a person named in the order. Delivery orders are chie

The term “delivery order contract” means a contract for property that does not procure or specify a firm quantity of property (other than a minimum or maximum quantity) and that pr

The term “delivery sale” means any sale of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco to a consumer if— (A) the consumer submits the order for the sale by means of a telephone or other method

The term “delivery seller” means a person who makes a delivery sale.

the term “delivery system” means— (A) any apparatus, equipment, device, or means of delivery specifically designed to deliver or disseminate a biological agent, toxin, or vector; o

when these receipts were handed by the plaintiffs to the defendant's agent, who took them and issued a bill of lading to the plaintiffs, the constructive possession and the entire

the agriculture operation does not extend through the bulking plants but ends, as the District Court ruled, with the delivery of the tobacco at the receiving platform of the bulkin

In American law. A court of record of general criminal jurisdiction in and for the city and county of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania. COURT OF PALACE AT WRHST-

A writ to have one’s sanity inquired into.

In medical jurisprudence. A diseased state of the mind, in which persons believe things to exist which exist only, or in the degree they are conceived of only, in their own imagina

An abbreviation for "demise"; Jackson ex dem. Wood v. Wood, Jackson on the demise of Wood, etc. 6 Cow. (N. Y.) 586.

A writ to choose the grand assize.

See "Demesne."

Whether the matter is great or small, the laws do not vary.

Fr. Of bad reputation. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 12.

Of illness. See "De Malo Lecti." DE MALO LECTI (Law Lat.; Law Fr. de mal de lyt). Of infirmity or illness of (in) bed. Closely rendered, in old Scotch law, bed-evil (bedde-evill).

See Essoin de malo lecti .

Lat. [L. Fr. de mal de venue.'] Of infirmity or misfortune in coming. A species of essoin or excuse for non-appearance in court, formerly allowed a defendant in England, and more a

The term “demand” means— (I) the average seasonally adjusted annual rate of domestic mill consumption in the most recent 3 months for which data are available; plus (II) the larger

A legal obligation; a request made the doing of a specified thing.

A demand.

The plaintiff or party who brings a real action. Co. Litt. 127; Comyn, Dig.

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

Lat. In old English practice. To demand. Toums, PL 63. See Demanda. To order or award; to direct a sentence to be carried into effect. Judicium executioni demandare; to order a jud

No demand is necessary to sustain a suit against the maker. His undertaking is unconditional, but the endorser undertakes conditionally to pay, if the maker does not; and this impo

Where a note is payable at a bank, it is not necessary to make any personal demand upon the maker elsewhere. It is his duty to be at the bank within the usual hours of business to

when the bank itself is the holder, it would be impracticable for it to make such inquiry in any other manner than by ascertaining that the note was there, and examining the books

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

A demand which the defendant institutes in consequence of that which the plaintiff has brought against him. Used in Louisiana. Prac. Code La. art. 374. DEMANDA (Law Lat.) In Old En

The term “demand loan” means any loan which is payable in full at any time on the demand of the lender. Such term also includes (for purposes other than determining the applicable

And it is the opinion of the court, that a demand of payment should be made upon the last day of grace, and notice of the default of the maker be put into the post-office early eno

a demand on the maker is, in general, indispensable; and that demand must be made at his place of abode or place of business. That it should be strictly personal, in the language o

The term “demand reduction” means any activity conducted by a National Drug Control Program agency, other than an enforcement activity, that is intended to reduce or prevent the us

The term “demand responsive system” means any system of providing designated public transportation which is not a fixed route system. / The term “demand responsive system” means an

A female demandant.

The term “demand-side management” includes energy conservation, energy efficiency, and load management techniques. / The term “demand side management” includes load management tech

Lat. In old English law. A demand. This, says Lord Coke, " is a word of art, and, in the understanding of the common law, is of so large an extent as no other one word in the law i

A writ to compel the sheriff to free a prisoner and take mainpernours. See 3 Bl. Comm. 128.

Writ of maintenance. A writ which lay against a person for the offense of maintenance. Reg. Orig. 182b, 189.

For purposes of this section, the term “demarche” means any official communication by one government to another, by written or oral means, intended by the originating government to

From me.

Death.

See "Medietas Linguae." DE MEDIO (Lat. of the mesne). A writ in the nature of a writ of right, which lies where, upon a subinfeudation, the mesne (or middle) lord suffers his under

Of the half tongue; half of one tongue and hajlf of another. This phrase describes that species of jury which, at common law, was allowed in both civli and criminal cases where one

A writ of mesne, which lay by the tenant against the mesne lord when the lord paramount had distrained the tenant for services due from the mesne lord.

For better damages; the plaintiff’s election to proceed against one defendant, having dismissed the others.

In Scotch law. Maliciously cutting off or otherwise separating one limb from another. 1 Hume, 323; Bell. Diet. DEMENS (Lat.) One who has lost his mind through sickness or some othe

One deprived of his mind.

Of unsound mind.

From now henceforth.

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

In medical jurisprudence. That form of insanity which is characterized by mental weakness and decrepitude, and by total inability to reason correctly or incorrectly.

THE STATUTE. The statute of Acton Burnell. See "Acton Burnell."

An English statute of 1233 allowing the charging of lands with debts contracted in trade. Also known as Acton Burnel. See 4 Bl. Comm. 426.

Lands of which the lord had the absolute property or ownership, as distinguished from feudal lands which he held of a superior. 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 104; Cowell. Lands which the

A man is said to be seised in his demesne as of fee of a corporeal inheritance, because he has a property dominicum or demesne in the thing itself. 2 Bl. Comm. 106. But when he has

A phrase meaning the same as "demesne."

That share of lands reserved to the crown at the original distribution of landed property, or which came to it afterwards by forfeiture or otherwise. 1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 286; 2

Pertaining to a demesne.

Fr. To let go; to part with; to put away. Kelham. Demette se; parts with. Id,

Fr. Demesne. En demeyne, si est dit a la difference de ceo que est tenu en seigniory, ou en service, ou en commun ovesque autres; in demesne is so called to distinguish it from tha

Half.

A word used in ancient records for a moiety, or one-half.

In some universities and colleges this term is synonymous with "scholars." Boyle, Char. 129.

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

Lat. Of, or concerning knights. The title of a statute passed in the 1st year of Edward II., the object of which was to abate that part of the feudal system, which required every o

A sum of money (6s., 8d., 3 Bl. Comm. App. v.) tendered and paid into court in certain cases in the trial of a writ of right by the grand assize. Co. Litt. 294b; Booth, Real Action

The term “de minimis fringe” means any property or service the value of which is (after taking into account the frequency with which similar fringes are provided by the employer to

a system by which an inferior judge is paid for his service only when he convicts the defendant has not become so embedded by custom in the general practice, either at common law o

The praetor does not concern himself with trifles.

When the matter in issue concerns only a few seconds or minutes of work beyond the scheduled working hours, such trifles may be disregarded. Split-second absurdities are not justif

Subject to subparagraph (B), the term “de minimis supplying country” means a CAFTA–DR country whose share of imports of the relevant CAFTA–DR article into the United States does no

A writ against threats, to keep the peace.

In civil law. A taking away; loss or deprivation. See "Capitaa Deminutio."

Partly official or authorized.

That may be