Law Dictionary

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 pe

While the work glows; in the heat of action. 1 Kent, Comm. 120. DUM FUIT IN PRISONA (Law Lat.) In English law. A writ which lay for a man who had aliened lands under duress by im-

While he was under age.

(While he was within age.) In old English practice. A writ of entry which formerly lay for an infant after he had attained his full age, to recover lands which he had aliened in fe

Lat. (While he was within age.) In old English practice. A writ of entry which formerly lay for an infant after he had attained his full age, to recover lands which he had aliened

A writ to recover land conveyed under duress.

In English law. A writ which lay for a man who had aliened lands under duress by imprisonment, to restore to him his proper estates, 2 Inst. 482. Abolished by St.3 & 4 Wm. TCs ay.

L. Lat. (While he was of unsound mind). In old English practice. A writ of entry which lay for a man who had aliened his lands while he was of unsound mind, to recover them from th

L. Lat. A debt due at present to be paid in future. A term applied to obligations which are absolute or perfect when contracted, though not payable before a certain future day, as

So that.

So that it is clear as to the person.

While he was of unsound mind.

“Dumping” means a disposition of material: Provided, That it does not mean a disposition of any effluent from any outfall structure to the extent that such disposition is regulated

The term “dumping margin” means the amount by which the normal value exceeds the export price or constructed export price of the subject merchandise.

While the offense was fresh. A term employed in the old law of appeal of rape. Bracton, fol. 147. DUM SOLA (Lat. while single or unmarried). A phrase applied to single women, to de

While unmarried.

While she shall live unmarried and chaste.

One who duns or, urges for payment; a troublesome creditor. A demand for payment, whether oral or written. Stand. Diet

In old records. A bank of earth cast up; the side of a ditch. Cowell.

While the work glows ; in the heat of action. 1 Kent, Comm. 120.

A cell under ground; a place in a prison built under ground, dark, or but indifferently lighted. DUN 10. A double; a kind of base coin less than a farthing.

A double; a kind of base coin less than a farthing.

Dunnage is placed under the cargo to keep it from being wetted by water getting into the hold, or between the different parcels to keep them from bruising and injuring each other.

Pcople that dwell on hilly places or mountains. Jacob.

Lat. A hill or rising ground. Spelman. See Dun. Duo non possunt in solido unam rem possidere. Two cannot possess one thing in entirety. Co. Litt. 368. Duo sunt instrumenta ad omnes

The trial by twelve men, or by jury. Applied to Sries de medietate linguae. Molloy, de Jur. ar. 448. DUODECIMA MANUS (Lat. twfelve hands). The oaths of twelve men, including himsel

The trial by twelve men, or byjury. Applied to juries de medietale lingue, Mol. de Jure Mar. 448.

Twelve men’s oath.

In old records. A jury of twelve men. Cowell. Generally, a dozen. Duodena pania, a dozen of bread. Towns. PI. 170.

Twelve witnesses to purge a criminal of an offense. DUORUM IN SOLIDUM DOMINIUM VEL possesslo esse non potest. Ownership or possession in entirety cannot be in two of the same thing

Two cannot possess one thing In entirety. Co.. Litt 368.

Two cannot possess one thing exclusively.

Ownership or possession in entirety cannot be in two persons of the same thing. Dig. 13, 65, 15; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 245. Bract fol. 28b.

Sole ownership or possession cannot be in two persons.

There are two instruments for confirming or impugning all things, —reason and authority. 8 Coke, 16.

Reason and authority are two instruments for the confirming or impugning of all matters.

In the civll law. Double the price of a thing. Dig. 21, 2, 2.

I. In old English law. Double. Duplex querela: a double complaint, or double quarrel; a complaint in the nature of an appeal, made to the archbishop of the province, against an inf

An appeal from an ordinary to his superior.

Twice the value of the marriage.

I. To double or repeat; to make in two parts, as, the old charters were executed.

One of two documents precisely similar.

The same as "double" taxation. See Double.

One executed in duplicate and each copy placed in different hands.

(Civil Law) A pleading corresponding to a common-law rejoinder.

Lat. A doubling. I»«l»Ilcacl0iie Hi p Mi»i%ilititU» lex bob patit«r« The law does not allow the doubling of a possibility. 1 Bol. R. 321.

The law does not suffer a duplication of possibility.

(Lat. a twofold or double right). Words which signify the same as dreit dreit, or droit droit, and which are applied to a vreit of right, patent, and such other writs of right as a

The charge is unitary in relating to one continuous conspiracy, although in proof of it different circumstances constituting it and overt acts in pursuance of it are disclosed. Thi

Lat. Double. Damnain duplo; double damages. Stat, Westm. 2, c. 26.

In Scotch law. The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication. The same as duplicatio. Macl. Prac. 127. To rejoin. "It is duplyed by the panel." 3 How. St. Tr. 471. DURANTE

v. In Scotch pleading. To rejoin. “Itis dupiyed by the panel.” 3 State Trials, 471.

Lat. Two pounds; the double of anas; twenty-four undm. Calvin* s Lex. Jurid. Inst, 2. 14. 8. Heinecc. El. Jur. Civ. lib. 2, tit. 14. § 641.

As used in this section, the term “durable infant or toddler product”— (1) means a durable product intended for use, or that may be reasonably expected to be used, by children unde

The term “durable medical equipment” includes iron lungs, oxygen tents, hospital beds, and wheelchairs (which may include a power-operated vehicle that may be appropriately used as

During.

See "Administration." DURANTE BENE PLACITO (Lat. during good pleasure). The ancient tenure of English judges was durante bene placito. 1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 267, 342. DURANTE MINO

During good pleasure.

During insanity.

During a journey.

During minority.

During widowhood.

During virginity, (so long as she remains unmarried.)

During life.

Extent, limit or time. People v. Hill, 7 Cal. 102.

In India, a court, audiei. levee.

2. To subject to duress, A word used by Lord Bacon. “If the party duressed do make any motion,” ete. Bac. Max. 89, rep. 22.

A threat to break a contract does not in itself constitute duress. Before the coercive effect of the threatened action can be inferred, there must be evidence of some probable cons

even if the state is driven to an action, if, at the same time, the citizen is put at a serious disadvantage in the assertion of his legal, in this case of his constitutional, righ

duress of imprisonment, which is where there is an arrest for an improper purpose without just cause, or where there is an arrest for a just cause but without lawful authority, or

The wrongful imprisonment of a person, or the illegal restraint of his liberty, in order to compel him to do some act. 1 Bl. Com. 130, 131, 136, 137. 1 Steph. Com. 187. 2 Kent's Co

One who subjects another to duress; one who compels another to do a thing, as by menace. Bac. Max. 90, reg. 22.

Duress through threats.

See County Palatine.

Means while the marriage lasts. 4 Mo. 159. There is frequently great difficulty in construing the words "during the coverture" when those words occur in an antenuptial marriage set

a provision that an office be held 'during good behavior' is generally deemed indicative of an intention to create a life tenure unless cause for removal arises

the life of the section or the matters mentioned in the section, and 'hereof' should be changed to 'thereof.' The court accepts neither of the interpretations, but gives its author

Bursley. [from Germ. dorr, dry, and Sax. slege, a stroke.] In old European law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows or beating. Spelman.

or DURSLEY. In old English law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows or beating. Spelman.

If, with respect to the 1962 and 1963 crops of wheat, the Secretary determines that the acreage allotments of farms producing durum wheat are inadequate to provide for the producti

Duzim. L. Fr. Twelfth. Kelham. DU8KES A CHOU QE. L. Fr. Until that. Kelham.

A bushel, according to "dust measure," is composed of a half bushel heaped and a half bushel filled to the level, at the pit where the coal is made, coal dust being used because th

A term used in Hindostan for a passport, permit or order from the English Blast Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exempting goods from the payment of dut

See "Court of Piepoudre."

An auction at which the auctioneer fixes a price for the articles offered, which is gradually lowered until accepted. See 18 Hun (N. Y.) 475.

the merchant appraisers appraise, estimate, and ascertain, the actual market value or wholesale value thereof, at the period of exportation to the United States, in the principal m

Duties are defined by Tomlin to be things due and recoverable by law. The term, in its widest signification, is hardly less comprehensive than 'taxes.' It is applied, in its most r

As used in this section, the term “duties and other import restrictions” includes (A) rate and form of import duties and classification of articles, and (B) limitations, prohibitio

But it is proper to say, in order that the opinion of the court may not be misunderstood, that when we speak of duties illegally exacted, the court mean to confine the opinion to c

Taxes levied upon the removal from one state to another of property acquired by succession or testamentary disposition. Frederickson v. Louisiana, 23 How. 445 , 16 L. Ed. 577; In r

the duties due upon all goods imported constitute a personal debt due to the United States from the importer, (and the consignee for this purpose is treated as the owner and import

the duty under the Acts is not based on the negligence of the carrier but is an absolute one requiring performance 'on the occasion in question

the very extent of the power and the conclusive character of his decision raised a corresponding duty that that agent's judgment should be exercised not capriciously or fraudulentl

In this section the term “duty call” means a telephone call that a railroad places to an employee to notify the employee of his or her assigned shift time.

only those duties "explicitly" prescribed by a provision of the Williams Act.

The term “duty-free merchandise” means merchandise sold by a duty-free sales enterprise on which neither Federal duty nor Federal tax has been assessed pending exportation from the

The term “duty-free sales enterprise” means a person that sells, for use outside the customs territory, duty-free merchandise that is delivered from a bonded warehouse to an airpor

the owner of a ship in navigable waters owes to all who are on board for purposes not inimical to his legitimate interests the duty of exercising reasonable care under the circumst

[the tug] owed to the owner of the [tow] the duty to exercise such reasonable care and maritime skill as prudent navigators employ for the performance of similar service

Children, wherever they go, must be expected to act upon childish instincts and impulses; and others, who are chargeable with a duty of care and caution towards them, must calculat