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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Decreet, sc. Decania, decanatus: his jurisdiction, a tithing. I. To die. Decedens,;., Decedent: a judicial writ in the C. B. brought to recover action by default of the tenant through colwrit to recover damages for deceit by way or fraudulent misrepresentation.

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The in trespass on the case. such.) A W'rit to summon ten jurors to decennary, a tithing. Decennarius: a deciner. decipientibus, jura subveuiunt, I. The laws not those deceiving. becoming. (Ten times as much.) A species of popular who had been bribed, to recover ten times bribe; also against the embraceour.

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Tenths; the tenth part of the profit formerly claimed by the Pope, now part of the Tithes. dozyner, etc. One of a tithing, a hund-borow. first pleading of the plaintiff in a civil action statement of his case; formerly, when oral, Declaration of intention: a declaration before a court of record that he intends to the United States. Declaration of trust: instrument stating, that the donor grants, or certain property in trust for certain purposes; being made or assented to by the donor file, and serve a declaration. To state sol- The plea of sanctuary, or benefit of clergy. A Scotch plea to the jurisdiction. to, ibid. The judgment of a court of equity or addisposes not of the main question, but of some plea or issue arising in the cause. Decree nisi: one which will be made absolute on motion, unless some cause to prevent intervene. Decreet absolvitor, a decree for the defendant; coudemnator, for the plaintiff.