Law Dictionary

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

or DEMY-SANGUE (Law Fr.) Half blood.

Half-blood.

(1) A conveyance, either in fee for life or for years. A lease or conveyance for a term of years. According to Chief Justice Gibson, the term strictly denotes a postliumous grant,

To convey or

In conveyancing. Mutuni leases made from one party to another on each side, of the same land, or something out of it; as when A. grants a lease to B. at a nominal rent (as of a pep

A conveyance by mutual leases made from one to another on each side of the same land, or of something issuing from it. A lease for a given sum, — usually a mere nominal amount, — a

To create a demise the owner of the vessel must completely and exclusively relinquish 'possession, command, and navigation' thereof to the demisee. It is therefore tantamount to, t

Charterers or freighters may become the owners for the voyage without any sale or purchase of the ship, as in cases where they hire the ship and have by the terms of the contract,

The natural dissolution of the king. The term is said to denote in law merely a transfer of the property of the crown. 1 Bla. Com. 249. By demise of the crown we mean only that, in

The natural dissolution of the king. The term is said to denote in law merely a transfer of the property of the crown. 1 Bl. Comm. 249. By demise of the crown, we mean only that, i

I have demised or leased. Demisi, concessi, et ad firmam tradidi, have demised, granted, and to farm let. The usual operative words in ancient leases, as the corresponding English

L. Lat. A demise or letting. Chiefly used in the phrase ex demissione (on the demise), which formed part of the title of the cause in the old actions of ejectment, where it signifi

To demise, lease, let. Ex demissione. By demise. Used in entitling common-law actions of ejectment. Abridged ex dem, and d: as, Doe d., or ex dem.t Patterson V. Winn.* Non. demisit

A writ to send the tenor of a record, or to exemplify it under the great seal. Reg. Orig. 220b. DE MODERATA MISERICORDIA CAplenda. Writ for taking a moderate amercement. A writ, fo

I. I In old to send away, or part

Half a tithing.

Half a tithing.

In military law. The dismissal of an army or body of troops from active service.

That form of government in which the people rula But the multitude caunot actually rule: an unorganic democracy, therefore, one that is not founded upon a number of institutions ea

Of or pertaining to democracy or to the party of the democrats.

The term “democratically elected government in Cuba” means a government determined by the President to have met the requirements of section 6066 of this title .

The term “nondemocratic country” or “democratic transition country” shall include any country which is not governed by a fully functioning democratic form of government, as determi

A writ for taking moderate amercement.

Of the manner of paying tithes.

Lat. Of a modus of tithing. A term applied in English ecclesiastical law, to a prescription to have a special manner of tithmg. 2 BL Com, 29. 3 Steph. Com, 130.

Demoerer. L. Fr. To stop, or stay; to remain; to abide or dwell with. Britt. c. 16. Kelham. See Demurrer.

Prohibition does not lie against a newly erected mill.

Cro. Jac. 429. A prohibition lles not against a newly-erected mlll.

To pull down or destroy, or begin to demolish, pull down or destroy. 60

demolire, I tio: a demolishing.

Lat. Concerning money. The title of three statutes passed in the 20th year of Edward I., viz: the statute I>e moneta, 20 Edw. I. st. 4; the statute De moneta, parvum, 20 Edw. I. st

The disuse of a particuiar metal for purposes of coinage. The withdrawal of the value of a metal as money.

To divest of the Cha racter of standard money; to withdraw from use as currency. Stand. Diet DEMONSTRATIO f Lat). Description; adfalse description does not harm). 2 Bla. Com. 382,

Definition.—The term "demonstrated to reduce recidivism" means that the Director of Bureau of Prisons has determined that appropriate research has been conducted and has

meets the burdens of going forward with the evidence and of persuasion.

Description. Falsa demonstratio non nocet, a false description does not injure.

The term “demonstration” means demonstration of technology in a pilot plant or semi-works scale facility, including a plant or facility located on a farm. / the term “demonstration

The term "demonstration period" means the 5-year period referred to in subsection (a).

“demonstration plant” means a complete facility which produces electricity, heat energy, or useful byproducts for commercial disposal from geothermal resources and which will make

The term “demonstration program” means a demonstration program carried out by a qualified entity under the pilot program established in subsection (b)(1).

The term “demonstration program Medicaid services” means, with respect to an individual participating in a State demonstration program, services for which the individual would be p

“demonstration project” means a proj­ect conducted by the Office of Personnel Management, or under its supervision, to determine whether a specified change in personnel management

A pecuniary legacy, coupled with a direction that it be paid out of a specific fund.

Same as Demurrage.

To demur.