Law Dictionary

Joint debtors.

CREDItorum petitio nee toll!, nee minul potest. The right to sue of creditors cannot be taken away or lessened by the contracts of their debtors. Poth. Obi. 87, 108; Broom, Leg. DE

The rights of creditors to sue cannot be diminished by agreements between their debtors.

1 Poth. Obi. 108; Broom, Max. 697. The rights of creditors can neither be taken away nor diminished by agreements among the debtors.

A female debtor.

A debt.

Debt and contract have no special locality.

A debt secured by land.

SOLVENDUM In future. A present debt, to be discharged in the future. 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 457, 470- 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 171, 176; 19 Barb. (N. Y.) 442, 445. DEBITUM SINE BREVI (Law Lat.) I

in the strictest sense, then, the bond is a debitum in presenti, though looking to the condition it may be properly said to be solvendum in futuro: and we think that it is in the s

A debt or obligation complete when contracted, but of which the performance cannot be required till some future period.

An action of debt brought without a writ.

For good or evil.

Of good memory.

For goods carried away.

Out of or from the property of the intestate.

See "Administration." DE BONIS NON ADMINISTRATIS (Law Lat. of the goods not administered). Where the administration of the estate of an intestate is left unfinished, in consequence

Of goods not administered.

See Bonis non amovendis .

From his own property.

From or out of the property of the testator.

From the goods of the testator if he has any.

Of the goods of the testator or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual pro

For good and ill. The Latin form of the law French phrase "De bien et de mat." In ancient criminal pleading, this was the expression with which the prisoner put himself upon a Jury

For good behavior.

An abbreviation of De bonis non administratis,(g.v.) 1 Strange, dt.;

Of the goolls not administered. Whenanadministrator is appointed to succeed another, who has left the estate partially unsettled, he is said to be granted “administration de bonis

Fr. To hinder. Debote; hindered. Britt. c. 40.

He broke them up.

(Law Fr.) To break In pieces. To break down, as a hedge. Ses haiea debruseront. Y«arb. T. 1 Edw. II. 8. Ceux queux ount debruse la pn80M;-those who have broken the prison. Stat. We

liability on a claim.

[L. Lat. breve, sen actio de debito.'] In practice. The name of an action which lies at law to recover a certain specific sum of money; or a sum that can readily be reduced to a ce

the making of a contract, express, or implied with a particular debtor whereby the debtor agrees to pay a certain amount of money periodically to the person engaged in the debt adj

the general rule is, that debt does lie against executors upon a simple contract; and that an exception is, that it does not lie in the particular case, where the testator may wage

The term “debt bondage” means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her contr

A debt or demand founded upon a verbal or implied contract, or upon any written agreement that is not under seal.

A debt evidenced by a deed or instrument under seal. See 51 Ohio St. 240,. 23 L. R. A. 842, 37 N. E. 267.

a person who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed to.

To the extent provided in advance by appropriations Acts, local currencies or other assets resulting from government-to-government debt conversions may be made available to the Fou

One to whom a debt Is due; a creditor; as, debtee executor. 3 Bl. Comm.

A species of debt or obligation mentioned by Glanville and Bracton, and which arose em m,utuo, out of a certain kind of loan. Gian. lib. 10, c. 3; Bract, fol. 99. See Mutuum ; Ex M

A species of debt or obligation mentioned by Glanville and Bracton, and which arose ex mutuo, out of a certain kind of loan. Glanv. lib. 10, c. 3; Bracton, fol. 99. See "Mutuum"; "

The term “debt financed portfolio stock” means any portfolio stock if at some time during the base period there is portfolio indebtedness with respect to such stock.

The term “debt-financed property” means any property with respect to which there is an acquisition indebtedness (as defined in clause (ii)) on the date of the decedent's death. / F

The term “debt-for-development swap” means the purchase of qualified debt by, or the donation of such debt to, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of title 26 which is e

Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term “debt forgiveness” means reducing or terminating a farmer program loan made or guaranteed under this chapter, in a manner that resu

The term “debt instrument” means a bond, debenture, note, certificate, or any other instrument or contractual arrangement constituting indebtedness (within the meaning of section 1

the term “debt issuance suspension period” means any period for which the Secretary of the Treasury determines for purposes of this subsection that the issuance of obligations of t

The term “debt management plan services” means services related to the repayment, consolidation, or restructuring of a consumer's debt, and includes the negotiation with creditors

But a debt of record, in the sense of the common law, is a debt or contract created of record; such as a statute staple, or statute merchant, and not one whose previous existence i

We lay it down, therefore, as the general rule, that in every instance in which an action of debt can be maintained upon a judgment at law for a sum of money awarded by such judgme

the person required to pay over the tax is a debtor and not a bailee. The money paid for the tax is not identified at the outset but is paid with the price of the ticket that belon

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “debtor corporation” includes a successor corporation.

The concept of leaving the Debtor in possession, as a 'receivership without a receiver,' was designed to obviate the need to appoint a trustee for the supervision of every small co

1869. The statute 32 & 33 Vict. c. 62, abolishing imprisonment for debt in England, and for the punishment of fraudulent debtors. 2 Steph. Com. 159-164. (Not to be confounded with

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