De tempore cujus contrarium memoria

hominum non existat. From the time of which human memory exists not to the contrary.

De tempore in tempus, et ad omnia tempora. From time to time and at all times.

De temps dont memorie ne court. From the time when memory runneth not to the contrary.

De terra sancta. Of the holy land. De testamentis. Of wills, the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects. De theolonio. A writ for the recovery of toll.

De transgressione. A writ of trespass.

De ultra mere. Of beyond sea.
De

una parte. Of one side; unilateral.

De uxore rapta et abducta. A writ for damages for the abduction of one's wife.

De vasto. A writ of waste.

De ventre inspiciendo. A writ to examine into a woman's nancy.

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DEAD

De verbo in verbum. Word for word.

De verborum significatione. Of the meaning of words, a part of the Digests or Pandects.

De vi laica amovenda. A writ to stop laymen forcibly aiding parsons in their strife for a church. De vicineto. From the neighborhood.

De warrantia chartae. A writ of warranty of charter.

De warrantia diei. A writ to save one from default by reason of absence in the king's service.

Deacon. A priest's assistant. Dead freight. The sum paid for the empty portion of a ship by a charterer. See 3 Brit. Rul. Cas. 266.

Dead letter. An unenforced law; an undelivered letter sent to the dead letter office.

Dead man's part. (Scotch) Personal property which he could dispose of by will.

Dead pay. Pay of dead soldiers and sailors wrongfully collected. Dead rent. Rent beyond royalty in a mine lease.

Dead use. A future use.
Deadhead. A passenger traveling
on a free pass. See 61 N. C. 21.
Dead-born. Born dead; still-born.
Dead-hand. Same as Mortmain.

Dead-line. A line which a military
prisoner may not cross without
liability of being shot.
Dead-pledge. A mortgage; the prop-
erty mortgaged.
Deadly

weapon. Anything with which death can be easily and readily produced. See 146 Mo. 6, 69 Am. St. Rep. 598, 47 S. W. 892. Dead's part. Same as Dead man's part.

continue a warren.

Debas. Below.

Debase. To adulterate.

Debatable land. Land once claimed by both England and Scotland. Debauch. To seduce.

Debent. They owe. Debenture. A sealed instrument acknowledging an indebtedness. See 72 Vt. 33, 47 Atl. 176. Debet. He owes; he ought. Debet esse finis litium. There ought

to be an end of litigation. Debet et detinet. He owes and withholds.

Debet et solet. He ought and has been accustomed to.

Debet quis juri subjacere ubi delinquit. One ought to be subject to the law of the place where he commits an offense.

DEBT

Debet sua cuique domus esse perfugium tutissimum. Each man's house should be a very safe refuge. See 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 31. Debile fundamentum fallit opus. When the foundation is weak, the structure falls. See 80 Mo. App. 115.

Debit. That which is charged as due or owing.

Debita. Debts.

Debita fundi. (Scotch) Debts secured by land.

Debita laicorum. Debts of the laity. Debita sequuntur personam debitoris. Debts follow the person of the debtor.

Debitor. A debtor.

Debitor non praesumitur donare.

A

debtor is not presumed to give. Debitors in solido. Joint debtors. Debitorum pactionibus, creditorum petitio nec The minui potest.

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

Debitrix. A female debtor.

Debitum. A debt.

Debitum et contractus sunt nullius loci. Debt and contract have no special locality.

Debitum fundi. A debt secured by land.

Debitum in presenti, solvendum in futuro. A present debt to be paid in the future. Debitum sine brevi. An action of debt brought without a writ. Debrusa. He broke them up. Debt. That which one owes to an. other; a just demand. See Ann. Cas. (Conn.) 1914C, 1059.

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

DEBT

Debt of record. A judgment debt. Debtee. A creditor.

Debtor. One who owes a debt. Debtors' act 1869. An English statute abolishing imprisonment for debt.

Debtor's summons. A summons issuing out of an English bankruptcy court, notifying one to pay his creditor or be subjected to bankruptcy proceedings.

Debuit. He owed; he ought.

Debuit repare. He ought to repair.
Decalogue. The Ten Commandments.
Decanatus or decania. The jurisdic-

tion of a dean.
Decanus. A dean.
Decapitation. Beheading.
Decease. Death.

Deceased wife's sister bill.

An Eng

lish statute prohibiting a widower from marrying his deceased wife's sister.

Decedens. A decedent.

Decedent. A deceased person. Deceit. Fraud; a false representa

tion made with intent to deceive, and relied upon to his damage by the party injured. See 102 Mass. 132, 3 Am. Rep. 440.

Decem tales. A writ to summon ten more jurors.

Decemviri litibus judicandis. Ten judges appointed by the Emperor Augustus.

DECLARATION

Decet tamen principem servare leges, quibus ipse servatus est. It is proper that the prince should observe the laws by which he himself is protected.

Decies tantum. A proceeding to recover ten times the amount received against a bribed juror. Decimae. Tithes; tenths.

Decimae de decimatis solvi non debent. Tithes are not due from that which is paid as tithes. Decimae debentur parocho. Tithes are due the parish priest. Decimae non debent solvi, ubi non est annua renovatio, et ex annuatis renovantibus simul semel. Tithes ought not to be paid where there is not an annual renovation, and only once from annual renovations.

oath. (Civil Law) oath upon which the cause rested where a party elected to leave the issue to the oath of his adversary. Declarant. One who makes an evidentiary declaration. Declaration. A pleading of plaintiff's cause of action. See 108 U. S. 336, 27 L. Ed. 746, 2 Sup. Ct. Rep. 682. An admission or statement subsequently used as evidence in an action.

the

Declaration of intention. An alien's formal statement in court of his intention to become a citizen. Declaration of Paris. An international declaration of 1856, on points of maritime law.

DECLARATION

Declaration of rights. A clause in a state constitution specifically reserving certain rights to the people. See 13 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 481. Declaration of trust. An act by which one acknowledges that property to which he holds title is held by him for another's use. See 66 Ark. 515, 51 S. W. 832. Declaration of war. A national proclamation publishing the fact that the declarant nation is at war with another. Declaratory. Explanatory; affirmative.

Declaratory judgment. A judgment establishing the rights of the parties, but ordering nothing. Declaratory statute.

One expressive

of the common law. See 44 Mass.

declare uses, but made before the
fine was levied.

Deemster. A Manx judge.
Deer-fald or deer-fold. A deer park.

Defalcation. A cutting off; a reduc-
tion; an embezzlement. See 120
Fed. (U. S.) 966.
Defalta. Default.
Defamation. A false publication
calculated to bring one into disre-
pute. See 103 Iowa, 214, 64 Am.
St. Rep. 175, 39 L. R. A. 734, 72
N. W. 518.

Defamatory. Slanderous; libelous. Defamer. One who has committed defamation.

Default. Fault; neglect; omission; failure to appear. See 42 N. J. L.

Defense au fond en fait.
denial.
Défense en droit. A demurrer.
Defensio. Defense.

Defensive allegation. A defendant's
plea in an ecclesiastical proceed-
ing.
Defensor. A defendant; a guardian.
Defensor civitatus. A Roman city

officer who cared for the public safety.

Defensum. A park; an inclosure. Deficiente uno sanguine non potest

esse haeres. Lacking in one blood he cannot be an heir. Defile. To deprive of chastity.