Law Dictionary

The stafute 32 & 33 Viet. c. 62, abolishing imprisonment for debt in England, and for the punishment of fraudulent debtors. 2 Steph. Comm. 159-164. Not to be confounded with the Ba

An English statute abolishing imprisonment for debt.

The term “debtor's principal residence”— (A) means a residential structure if used as the principal residence by the debtor, including incidental property, without regard to whethe

A summons under the seal of a court of bankruptcy in England, giving notice to the person to whom it is addressed (the debtor) that, unless he pays or compounds for a debt (not les

The term “debt relief agency” means any person who provides any bankruptcy assistance to an assisted person in return for the payment of money or other valuable consideration, or w

The word 'debts,' as used in R. S. § 3466 (Comp St. § 6372), includes taxes.

The debts due from the government of the United States have no locality at the seat of government. The United States, in their sovereign capacity, have no particular place of domic

the term “debt service” means the required payments for principal and interest made with respect to a mortgage secured by housing assisted under this chapter;

The term “debt to GDP ratio” means the percentage obtained by dividing the level of the total public debt or net public debt, as the case may be, by the gross domestic product.

He owed; he ought.

He ought to repair.

or DE CETERO. Henceforth; henceforward; hereafter; in the future. DE CALCETO REPARENDO (Lat.) A writ for repairing a highway, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to distrain th

Writ for repairing a causeway. An old writ by which the sheriff was commanded to distrain the inhabitants of a place to repair and maintain a causeway, etc. Reg. Orig. 154.

A writ for the repair of a highway.

The Ten Commandments.

DECANIA, or DECANA (Lat.) A town or tithing, consisting originally of ten families of freeholders. Ten tithings compose a hundred. 1 Bl. Comm. 114. Decanatus, a deanery, a company

The jurisdiction of a dean.

The office, jurisdiction, territory or command of a decanus or dean. Spelman.

A dean.

Of the chief lords of the fee. A phrase in ancient charters, denoting

Beheading.

Of those who have lost their status, or civil condition. Dig. 4. 5. See "Capitas Deminutio." DE CARTIS REDDENDIS (Lat. for restoring'charters). A writ to secure the delivery of cha

A writ for the recovery of deeds.

A writ for the recovery of chattels.

A writ to compel a bishop to admit a prisoner to bail.

The decay of a perishable cargo is not a cause; it is an effect. It may be the result of a number of causes, for some of which, such as the inherent defects of the cargo, or, under

As a noun, death; departure from life. As a verb, to die; to depart life, or from life. This has always been a common term in Scotch law. "Gif ane man deceasis." Skene de Verb. Sig

the term “deceased partner’s distributive share” includes the share of his estate or of any other person succeeding, by reason of his death, to rights with respect to his partnersh

For purposes of this subsection, with respect to a surviving spouse of a deceased spouse dying after December 31, 2010, the term “deceased spousal unused exclusion amount” means th

A proposed law seeking to legalize marriages between a man and a sister of his deceased wife. Many times brought before the English parliament and defeated by the bishops in the ho

A decedent.

A deceased person. The signification of the word has become more extended than its strict etymological meaning. Strictly taken, it denotes a dying person, but is always used in the

Z. In old English law. To die; to decease: Decessit: he died. In the civil law. To depart, that is, from life; to dia

nm. Death; departure from life.

As 'deceit' means fraudulent misrepresentation, 'misrepresentation' must have been meant to include negligent misrepresentation, since otherwise the word 'misrepresentation' would

Disceit. f L. Lat. breve de deceptione,] In old practice. The name of a judicial writ which formerly lay to recover lands which had been lost by default by the tenant in a real act

A sham plea; one alleging as facts things which are obviously false on the face of the plea. Gray v. Gidiere, 4 Strob. (S. C.) 443.

Christmas day. In Scotland, the; the 15th of May, called Whitsun- Lammas day; the 11th of November, sessions: a minor criminal court held more justices of the peace in each Eng- 40

(Ten such; or ten teles, jurors.) In practice. The name of a writ which issues in England, where, on a trial at bar, ten jurors are necessary to make up a fnil panel, commanding th

I. In the Roman law. Ten persons who acted as the assistants of the praetor, when he decided on matters of law, or who were themselves judges.

Ten judges (five being senators and five knights), appointed by Augustus to act as DECENNARIUS (Lat.) One who held onehalf a virgate of land. Du Cange. One of the' ten freeholders

A decennary.

One of a tithing.

A tithing.

The term “decennial determination date” means— (i) July 1, 2026, and (ii) each July 1 of the year that is 10 years after the preceding decennial determination date under this subpa

1. In the sense of a false representation to induce credit or confidence, see' Deceit; Estoppel; Fraud, Actual. 2. In the sense of stratagem to discover crime, see Communication, P

A writ that lieth properly against him that deceitfully doth anything in the name of another, for one that receiveth damage or hurt thereby. It is either original or judicial. Fit/

non decipientibus, jura snbveniunt, I. The laws assist the deceived, not those deceiving.

JURA subveniunt. The laws help persons who are deceived, not those deceiving. Tray. Lat. Max. 149,

The laws aid those deceived not the deceivers.

It is a deceptive trade practice 'to represent falsely that a televised test, experiment, or demonstration provides a viewer with visual proof of a product claim, regardless of whe

the term “deceptive loading, handling, weighing, or sampling” means any manner of loading, handling, weighing, or sampling that deceives or tends to deceive official inspection per

For the purposes of this subsection, the term “deceptive warranty” means (A) a written warranty which (i) contains an affirmation, promise, description, or representation which is

In Scotch law. To decree. "Decernit and ordainit." 1 How. St. Tr. 927. "Decerns." Shaw, 16. DECESSUS (Lat. from decedere, to depart). In the Civil Law. Decease; death. Dig. 33. 2.

I. In civil and old English law. To decree.; to decide.

A writ to summon ten more jurors.

A writ requiring a thing to be certified; a kind of certiorari. Reg. Orig. 151, 152b.

A writ for certifying. A writ directed to the sheriff, requiring him to certify to a particular fact. Reg. Orig. 24.

Fr. Decease; death. Briti. c. 93.

Death.

It is proper.

In future.

It is proper that the prince should observe the laws by which he himself is protected.

Writ of champerty. A writ directed to the justices of the bench, commanding the enforcement of the statute of champertors. Reg. Orig. 193; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 172. See "Champerty." D

Of flesh and blood.

A writ to secure a right of way.

Of victuals to be used. The title of a sumptuary statute passed 10 Edw. III. st. 3, to restrain the expense of entertainments. Barr. Obs. St. 240. DE CLAMIA ADMITTENDA IN ITINERE p

Of victuals fo be used. The title of a sumptuary statute passed 10 Edw, LI. St. 3, to restrain the expense of entertainments. Barring. Ob, Sb, 240, DE CLAMIA ADMITTENDA IN

To decide includes the power and right to deliberate, to weigh the reasons for and against, to see which preponderate, and to be governed by that preponderance. Darden v. Lines, 2

L In old English law. To decide; to put an end to; to fall, or fall to; to remain to; to escheat In the civil law. To decide; to determine judicially.

I. I. In old English law. Ten times as much; a writ given by the statute 38 Edw. Ill, cc. 12, 13; or by 34 Edw. III., c. 8, which lay against a juror who had taken money of either

A proceeding to recover ten times the amount received against a bribed juror.

In ecclesiastical law. Tenths or tithes. The tenth part of the annual profit of each llving, payable formerly to the 'pope. There were several valuations made of these livings at d

Lat. A word used in old records for decenna, (q. v.) LL. Ince, cited in Spelman, voc. Decanus.

Tithes; tenths.

Tithes are due the parish priest.

Tithes are not due from that which is paid as tithes.

UBI non est annua renovatio, et ex annuatis renovantibus simul semel. Tithes ought not. to be paid where there is an annual renovation, and from annual renovations once only. Cro.

Tithes ought not to be paid where there is not an annual renovation, and only once from annual renovations.

The punishing every tenth soldier by lot, for mutiny or other failure of duty, was termed "decimatio legionie" by the Romans. Sometimes only the twentieth man was punished (vicesim

Tithes are due to the parish priest

Tithes are not to be paid from that which is given for tithes.

Dal. 50. Tithes belong to the parson by divine right and canonical institution.

A French coin, of the value of the tenth part of a franc, or nearly two cents.

Cro. Jac. 42. Tithes ought not to be paid where there is not an annual renovation, and from annual renovations once only.

One of a tithing.

Those that had the oversight and check of ten friburgs for the maintenance of the king's peace. Cunningham.

It is safer to be deceived than to deceive. Lofift, 396.

The court's decision of a case is its judgment thereon. Its opinion is a statement of the reasons on which the judgment rests.

The term “decision document” means— (A) a decision notice (as that term is used in the Forest Service Handbook); (B) a decision record (as that term is used in the Bureau of Land M

The term “Decision Point” means the date on which the executive boards of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund review the d

In the ordinary use of language, it will hardly be contended, that the decisions of courts constitute laws. They are, at most, only evidence of what the laws are, and are not, of t

The term "decision support services" means information, including data and refined products, that supports water resources-related decision-making processes.

a "substantial factor" in the absence of which the opposite decision would have been reached.

In the civil law. Where one of the parties to a suit, not being able to prove his charge, offered to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of his adversary, which the adversa

In the civil law. A one of the parties, not being able to prove his the decision of the cause to the oath of his taken, v. Saeramentum decisionis.

See Oath, Decisory.

In the civil law. An oath which one of the parties defers or refers back to the other for the decision of the cause. —-Extrajudicial oatb. One not taken in any judicial proceeding,

I I In old English law. Proclamation.

See Clamea Admittenda, etc.